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<blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5468026" data-attributes="member: 5202">Count me in the category of &quot;too many low level campaigns, let's do something different&quot;.&nbsp; The last time I played 3.5 I was in a year and a half long campaign where one of the players insisted that we &quot;would never really know our characters if we started at a higher level&quot;.&nbsp; I questioned his creativity to come up w/a couple paragraphs of backstory, but he convinced our eager actor DM to start at first anyway.&nbsp; Skip to 18 months later when we still aren't even LEVEL THREE after almost weekly play.&nbsp; If it's a 3.x game (and for some reason I agreed to play) and we will have steady advancement, 1st level is all right.&nbsp; 4E is ok to start at the beginning.&nbsp; I wouldn't want to start that low in any prior editions tho and honestly would rather play higher level content.&nbsp; Too many years of &quot;Well the campaign was fun for awhile, but interest trickled off or the GM got bored, so now we'll play this&quot; and we never even got past 6th or 7th.&nbsp; We typically started 2E games at 5th level Wizard XP so we didn't feel like total schlubs.&nbsp; I just started 2 different 4E games.&nbsp; One with a group that is playing 1st level and one that is playing 8th level Dark Sun.&nbsp; Now granted, DS is one of my favorite settings so it has bias, but that game is way more interesting.&nbsp; Then again, that group is also a lot more focused and didn't waste the first hour and a half of a 3 1/2 hr session before we actually got started.&nbsp; Yeah, everyone had 3 weeks advance to make characters and 2 guys showed up w/incomplete characters, one of that pair was late on top of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SSquirrel, post: 5468026, member: 5202"] Count me in the category of "too many low level campaigns, let's do something different". The last time I played 3.5 I was in a year and a half long campaign where one of the players insisted that we "would never really know our characters if we started at a higher level". I questioned his creativity to come up w/a couple paragraphs of backstory, but he convinced our eager actor DM to start at first anyway. Skip to 18 months later when we still aren't even LEVEL THREE after almost weekly play. If it's a 3.x game (and for some reason I agreed to play) and we will have steady advancement, 1st level is all right. 4E is ok to start at the beginning. I wouldn't want to start that low in any prior editions tho and honestly would rather play higher level content. Too many years of "Well the campaign was fun for awhile, but interest trickled off or the GM got bored, so now we'll play this" and we never even got past 6th or 7th. We typically started 2E games at 5th level Wizard XP so we didn't feel like total schlubs. I just started 2 different 4E games. One with a group that is playing 1st level and one that is playing 8th level Dark Sun. Now granted, DS is one of my favorite settings so it has bias, but that game is way more interesting. Then again, that group is also a lot more focused and didn't waste the first hour and a half of a 3 1/2 hr session before we actually got started. Yeah, everyone had 3 weeks advance to make characters and 2 guys showed up w/incomplete characters, one of that pair was late on top of it. [/QUOTE]

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