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My friend is planning to start this adventure path with us. It says that one can take new characters or just take already existing ones. But it also says that new characters start with roughly 3400 gold worth of stuff, which is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY less than what already existing characters at level 11 should have according to the the treasure sheet.
Is that an oversight?
Or are you supposed to downgrade already existing characters?
Actually it is a bit more than the lump sum you get to spend when directly building a level 11 PC according to Table 10-10: Character Wealth (3200 gp)
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The starting wealth advice is for new characters, not characters from a previous campaign. You're not expected to downgrade existing characters. I highly recommend you check out the player's guide for the AP which is free. If you look at that you'll see the guidance for starting treasure is under the header for creating new characters, not existing characters.
My experience is that starting wealth tends to be a bit lower than what a character would pick up if they had campaigned to that level, but that's fine since you don't have 10 levels of experience with that character, more control over your items, and making a level 11 character already takes ages anyway.
However, if your GM is letting characters from a previous campaign play, they may want to up the starting gold to make things a little more even. Unless the party has some loot no ones using lying around the new characters can claim. Personally when I ran Fists of the Ruby Phoenix everyone wanted to play new characters and so the starting gold was fine.