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Thanks so much for the replies. This should give me some solid options for moving forward. I appreciate the advice.

I'm relatively new to S&W but have experience with D&D 3.5, Pathfinder. I love the gritiness of this game but some of the adventure modules I've seen make it almost impossible to survive. I was curious if (in general) most DM's playing this game let the players start out with some extra things like ...