Cogidubnus
2010-09-29, 11:48 AM
What do you do if someone with levels in a monster class (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165439) is reincarnated. I can think of four options.
1) You tell them they gain no benefits apart from HD etc. from those levels. This is bad a) because it's just nasty to your player and b) because it makes no sense for you to keep the levels at all by this argument.
2) You let them take the levels in different classes. Potentially exploitable by munchkins.
3) You let them take levels in the relevant monster class if they become an appropriate monster. Almost always going to require a result of "Other".
4 - my favourite) You declare that by taking levels in the monster class they come closer to being the epitome of what they are, and it becomes a part of their personality and soul, so when they reincarnate, their new form gains all the benefits of the old one. For example, a reincarnated level 10 pit fiend who came back as a halfling would grow to Medium, grow claws, wings and a tail, have a bunch of SLAs and get a lot more physically powerful.
Any other thoughts?
1) You tell them they gain no benefits apart from HD etc. from those levels. This is bad a) because it's just nasty to your player and b) because it makes no sense for you to keep the levels at all by this argument.
2) You let them take the levels in different classes. Potentially exploitable by munchkins.
3) You let them take levels in the relevant monster class if they become an appropriate monster. Almost always going to require a result of "Other".
4 - my favourite) You declare that by taking levels in the monster class they come closer to being the epitome of what they are, and it becomes a part of their personality and soul, so when they reincarnate, their new form gains all the benefits of the old one. For example, a reincarnated level 10 pit fiend who came back as a halfling would grow to Medium, grow claws, wings and a tail, have a bunch of SLAs and get a lot more physically powerful.
Any other thoughts?