A Minor Challenge
atcDave
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Just goofing around...
I’m trying a minor challenge to myself here, mainly out of curiosity. But Irenicus clearly has access to several vampires. So I’m thinking, Bohdi takes it upon herself to level drain the team back to first level. And I’m thinking of an old school PnP type level drain, I reduced everyone down to 500 experience and dialed back their skills and abilities to first level. This will NOT be getting “Restored”, they have to gain experience from here. Well, except Imoen, Bohdi didn’t want to damage Imoen prior to the next step in her brother’s plan. So she’ll be fine, except for no spellbook. Nothing. Every scroll is precious…
I don’t expect this to have much long term impact. By the time we leave Irenicus’ dungeon we’ll only be a couple levels behind normal? And experience is seriously not in short supply for this game, especially with Imoen having to rescribe everything.
This is about getting started, the jailbreak. And having now played level one of the dungeon, I’d say the difference was pretty small. I was most concerned about the ogre mage as the second fight, but everyone was already second level and it wasn’t a hard fight.
Level progression has come quickly through the first level of the dungeon. At the end, everyone was about 5th level. Maybe one more level by the end? That really let’s us loose in Athkatla not too much below average. Aerie should join at her normal minimum level.
“Gerold what’s wrong? You look sick, you never get sick!”
It may have taken some creativity for Bohdi to figure how to level drain an Undead Hunter. But for argument’s sake we’ll say she did, and the experience was massively disorienting for young Gerold.
Full write is here as "Gerold and Louisa" or at DavesGaming.
I’m trying a minor challenge to myself here, mainly out of curiosity. But Irenicus clearly has access to several vampires. So I’m thinking, Bohdi takes it upon herself to level drain the team back to first level. And I’m thinking of an old school PnP type level drain, I reduced everyone down to 500 experience and dialed back their skills and abilities to first level. This will NOT be getting “Restored”, they have to gain experience from here. Well, except Imoen, Bohdi didn’t want to damage Imoen prior to the next step in her brother’s plan. So she’ll be fine, except for no spellbook. Nothing. Every scroll is precious…
I don’t expect this to have much long term impact. By the time we leave Irenicus’ dungeon we’ll only be a couple levels behind normal? And experience is seriously not in short supply for this game, especially with Imoen having to rescribe everything.
This is about getting started, the jailbreak. And having now played level one of the dungeon, I’d say the difference was pretty small. I was most concerned about the ogre mage as the second fight, but everyone was already second level and it wasn’t a hard fight.
Level progression has come quickly through the first level of the dungeon. At the end, everyone was about 5th level. Maybe one more level by the end? That really let’s us loose in Athkatla not too much below average. Aerie should join at her normal minimum level.
“Gerold what’s wrong? You look sick, you never get sick!”
It may have taken some creativity for Bohdi to figure how to level drain an Undead Hunter. But for argument’s sake we’ll say she did, and the experience was massively disorienting for young Gerold.
Full write is here as "Gerold and Louisa" or at DavesGaming.
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