Sure, that's fine if you want to tell a (nearly)zero-to-(overpowered)hero story. Which I did for some time (played a bit of 1e, 2e, and DMed a lot of 5e). But,

Sure, that's fine if you want to tell a (nearly)zero-to-(overpowered)hero story. Which I did for some time (played a bit of 1e, 2e, and DMed a lot of 5e). But, genre aside, for any other kind of story you're better off finding something else. e.g. trying to do https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/grey-ranks/ https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/grey-ranks/ in any edition of D&D won't work well.