fortesama
2010-07-24, 02:13 AM
Once our current DM is done with his campaign, I'm thinking of starting one myself for our group. No i'm not looking for players from here.
The concept:
- The difficulty will be set higher than usual and extra character sheets may be necessary due to the high likelihood of death.
-Starting level 5.
- All books and races are fair game. Even monsterous characters are allowed as long as their ECL is less than or equal to 5.
- 34 point buy. I'm considering Gestalt.
- If I do go gestalt: Prestige classing allowed after they run it through me first. No gaining of two caster levels of the same class per level up (i.e. no you can't level up as both a warlock and hellfire warlock at the same time); I cannot have players running around with 9th level spells or Dark Invocations at level 12 unless their a beholder mage or ur-priest.
-Alignment restrictions from classes are lifted. As for paladin and similar, their abilities change depending on their current alignment Neutral counts as lawful or good as appropriate.
-They can pull any cheesy stuff they want under the understanding that I can also pull similar tricks on them. Except for pun-pun. Absolutely no pun-pun.
-EXP pool system: instead of gaining exp individually, they gain it as a group (think neverwinter nights exp system). LA reduction automatically applied at appropriate levels.
I'm particularly worried when it comes to my friend since he learned quite a few tricks from me when I was a player (no, I didn't break the game thank you very much). Chances are he'll pull the StP Erudite/Beholder Mage or similar on me. Now I have no problem with that but the question is on tips in maintaining a decent level of challenge especially since, from what I'm hearing, I might be getting
- The aformentioned beholder mage
- An ubercharger
- a necromancer with a ridiculous amount of undead
- a pixie psionic fist with metamorphosis
- a hellfire warlock with scribe scroll and a penchant for planar bindings
and the worst of them
- a kobold. no, she's apparently not planning on pun-pun
The concept:
- The difficulty will be set higher than usual and extra character sheets may be necessary due to the high likelihood of death.
-Starting level 5.
- All books and races are fair game. Even monsterous characters are allowed as long as their ECL is less than or equal to 5.
- 34 point buy. I'm considering Gestalt.
- If I do go gestalt: Prestige classing allowed after they run it through me first. No gaining of two caster levels of the same class per level up (i.e. no you can't level up as both a warlock and hellfire warlock at the same time); I cannot have players running around with 9th level spells or Dark Invocations at level 12 unless their a beholder mage or ur-priest.
-Alignment restrictions from classes are lifted. As for paladin and similar, their abilities change depending on their current alignment Neutral counts as lawful or good as appropriate.
-They can pull any cheesy stuff they want under the understanding that I can also pull similar tricks on them. Except for pun-pun. Absolutely no pun-pun.
-EXP pool system: instead of gaining exp individually, they gain it as a group (think neverwinter nights exp system). LA reduction automatically applied at appropriate levels.
I'm particularly worried when it comes to my friend since he learned quite a few tricks from me when I was a player (no, I didn't break the game thank you very much). Chances are he'll pull the StP Erudite/Beholder Mage or similar on me. Now I have no problem with that but the question is on tips in maintaining a decent level of challenge especially since, from what I'm hearing, I might be getting
- The aformentioned beholder mage
- An ubercharger
- a necromancer with a ridiculous amount of undead
- a pixie psionic fist with metamorphosis
- a hellfire warlock with scribe scroll and a penchant for planar bindings
and the worst of them
- a kobold. no, she's apparently not planning on pun-pun