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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9257745" data-attributes="member: 7006">This is just one of the many places in the game where there's a disparity between game and story.  We have a whole bunch of things that are designed specifically for the "gameplay" aspect... but its parallel to narrative and story is fungible at best.Are 1st level characters "inexperienced"?  Well, compared to what characters can do at 20th level, they certainly seem that way.  But then again, 1st level characters are hands-down more experienced than Commoner NPCs.  So depending on how the table decides to imagine their story... you can play 1st level as 18-year-olds going out to adventure for the first time OR as seasoned adventurers that can control or dominate regular folks if they so choose.  D&D allows for us to imagine things either way and does not proscribe one way or another.It also doesn't proscribe how leveling up and our narratives align either.  Getting up to 20th level could be these characters spending a decade or more in-world evolving slowly over time (for those campaigns that use a lot of 'downtime' between individual adventures)... or could be like 3 months of in-world time passing as you play out an adventure path or something.  Again, the game does not tell us how we are meant to see things and its all up to individual tables to decide.  The fact that you could have a game that starts the party with fresh-faced 18-year-olds going out to adventure for the first time as 1st level characters and then they become 20th level ubergods in less than a year in-world at 19-years-old because that's just how the DM chose to level up the PCs while the narrative unfolded... is all we need to know about just how much the game does not care or tell us how to run it.</blockquote>

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