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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agamon" data-source="post: 4282141" data-attributes="member: 184">The hobbits on LotR weren't PCs.  Who wants to play some that lets everyone else fight, nearly die or get kidknapped when you do try to fight, etc?Who says PCs have always been super heroes?  Let me tell you, it sure is easier to have a PC with an interesting background, whereas before, if you were a battle-hardened soldier in older D&D versions, level 1 made little sense.PCs are meant to be important and leaders in whatever it is they did or do.  D&D is meant to be a heoric game, and the designers have said from day one that they were extending the sweet spot, which they did quite well.That said, I'll miss low level incompetence.  I always found low levels in D&D fun to DM and play.  But I have no problems with 4e's way of handling this.OTOH, one thing I hate about 4e: it's release has all but crippled this site... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>