I couldn't agree more. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> Where's the fun in starting life with all the power, all the answers, and absolute invulnerability? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> How can you have an adventure if nothing is beyond your reach? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/question.gif" alt="" />
For my part, I prefer to play new low-level characters and earn them an heroic future, than to start out "above average" and rest on the laurels of an heroic past.
In a nutshell, I yearn for the journey, not the destination.