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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6676785" data-attributes="member: 5143"><p>The only D&D games being run at GenCon are Adventurer's League games. In Adventurer's League you need to use AL characters. Which is fine because 1st level AL characters are simply ANY character you create using the PHB. The problem is that the rules are that you can't start above 1st level, so unless you've earned enough XP through play, you can't play in the 5-10 adventures.</p><p></p><p>This has always been the case at GenCon with some caveats. The only official play at GenCon has always been whichever Organized Play campaign was happening at the time. In 4e, that was Living Forgotten Realms. In 3e/3.5e, that was Living Greyhawk.</p><p></p><p>The campaign staff of each of those campaigns set the rules differently. In Living Greyhawk and in Adventurer's League you cannot start at a level higher than 1st level. In Living Forgotten Realms, you could start a character at level 1, 5, or 11. But that rule only got implemented 2 years into the campaign. Before that, you also had to start at 1st level. Also, the rule that you could start at higher levels did not go over well with the hardcore players who felt like there was no point scheduling regular LFR games at their gaming stores if anyone off the street could show up with the same level character they worked for.</p><p></p><p>At GenCon this year there were adventures for level 1-4 characters and ones for 5-10. New players can show up with generic 1st level characters and be perfectly legal playing the 1-4 adventures. It sounds like you were signed up for a 5-10 adventure that you didn't have a legal character for and they helped you make up some first level characters and put you into the 1-4 adventure instead. Which is the way it should work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6676785, member: 5143"] The only D&D games being run at GenCon are Adventurer's League games. In Adventurer's League you need to use AL characters. Which is fine because 1st level AL characters are simply ANY character you create using the PHB. The problem is that the rules are that you can't start above 1st level, so unless you've earned enough XP through play, you can't play in the 5-10 adventures. This has always been the case at GenCon with some caveats. The only official play at GenCon has always been whichever Organized Play campaign was happening at the time. In 4e, that was Living Forgotten Realms. In 3e/3.5e, that was Living Greyhawk. The campaign staff of each of those campaigns set the rules differently. In Living Greyhawk and in Adventurer's League you cannot start at a level higher than 1st level. In Living Forgotten Realms, you could start a character at level 1, 5, or 11. But that rule only got implemented 2 years into the campaign. Before that, you also had to start at 1st level. Also, the rule that you could start at higher levels did not go over well with the hardcore players who felt like there was no point scheduling regular LFR games at their gaming stores if anyone off the street could show up with the same level character they worked for. At GenCon this year there were adventures for level 1-4 characters and ones for 5-10. New players can show up with generic 1st level characters and be perfectly legal playing the 1-4 adventures. It sounds like you were signed up for a 5-10 adventure that you didn't have a legal character for and they helped you make up some first level characters and put you into the 1-4 adventure instead. Which is the way it should work. [/QUOTE]
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