Howdy! 👋 I’ve been DMing for about a year after running a Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign for a group of friends. My book will be here Wednesday to begin prep. But before it shows up I was curious what level the campaign starts at and if it’s level 1 how breaking would it be to start at level 3?

  • @KattM
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    2 years ago

    I started Hoard of the dragon queen with 3 players at level 3. Two reasons:

    1- Level 1 is boring

    2- The encounters are beyond deadly to level 1 characters.

    So for me, no issue with starting the campaign at a higher level. In fact I would recommend it.

    • @calebOP
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      22 years ago

      Thank you! There’s 5 PCs in this group, so the action economy will be a little lopsided at times, but I agree with both of those points. I think the 4 goblins at the beginning of LMoP have the highest kill count of any 5e adventure.