I think if I were going to do another D&D campaign I would get the players to meet in an inn, a group of background characters. In 5e there is a thing called a background and that is what the character was doing before they took on a professional character. I would have them select that character but not to put it down, instead they would roll up stats and select a background and then I would throw them into the inn as their town is overrun with goblins. Professional characters were staying in the inn and they went to fight the goblins and they died. The player characters have to pick from about the possessions available and continue the fight against the foes outside. The urchin, the acolyte, the sage, the solider, the outlander and who ever else. At the end of the fight they get to decide if they want to continue being who they are. Maybe they all become Folk Heroes and their class.
They would be heroes of the town, if anyone else survived the attack. Maybe they would be heroes that protected the inn and only the people of the inn survived. Maybe they did a sortie out to surrounding buildings, maybe they gathered the village folk together. Did they save the village children? Get the militia together? In any case a group of professionals died in the first assault and they left gear at the inn and now the characters have it. The spells they have are from the spell books left behind. They start out with cantrips, maybe one or two. Maybe in the midst of the fight, gods grant acolytes powers or the magic users cast spells off of scrolls and the fighters engage the enemy rogues backstab enemies et al.
That would be a great beginning to a character's life.
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