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[Savarin]

Hello I’m working on creating a game with very high difficulty. And wanted to give my players a choice of picking perks there characters can get per level but I’m running into problems finding a way to try making them balanced. I would really appreciate some help.

Spoiler: Perks as of now

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Strength

Per level (+2 Str, +1 vs bull rush, over run, grapple checks and +2 strength based skills.)

Dexterity

Per level (+2 Dex, +2 Dex based skills +1 reflex, )

Con

Per level (+2 con + 1 fortitude, +1 Dr/-)

Int

Per level (+2 int, +2 for Int based skills +4 skill point)

Wisdom

Per level (+2 Wis, +2 for wisdom based skills, +1 will )

Charisma

Per level (+2 cha, +2 for charisma based skills.)

Hindered
+ 20% exp (only while doing hindered.)
Per level (feat.)

Generalist
-10% exp (only while being a generalist)
Every other level starting at lvl 1(+1 str, dex, con, int, wis, cha)
Every other level starting at level 2(+1 to all skills.)

If you guys think there can be other versions or more types of perks per level and such let me know. It will help me a lot thank you very very much!

[Goaty14]

1: Should be moved to the 3.5 subforum, methinks.

So basically some flat bonuses to your players? I guess the appropriate counter-question is what sort of higher difficulty is in question? Personally, I don't really see giving players more numbers is really going to help them all that much, unless the enemies you're sending at them have similar benefits compared to their CR-appropriate counterparts. In other words...

Suppose your players are level 3, and you would normally send a few Ogres their way as an encounter. However, you want to make it more challenging and thus you give them the buff and instead of ogres, you send

1) Hill Giants: This sort of buff would be ok, because since your players are getting +numbers, so are your monsters.

2) Spectres: This wouldn't be as much ok, given that while your players got higher numbers, your monster got more abilities, which generally has more power.

This is all just my opinion, just that monsters and players should scale side-by-side.

[Savarin]

1: Should be moved to the 3.5 subforum, methinks.

So basically some flat bonuses to your players? I guess the appropriate counter-question is what sort of higher difficulty is in question? Personally, I don't really see giving players more numbers is really going to help them all that much, unless the enemies you're sending at them have similar benefits compared to their CR-appropriate counterparts. In other words...

Suppose your players are level 3, and you would normally send a few Ogres their way as an encounter. However, you want to make it more challenging and thus you give them the buff and instead of ogres, you send

1) Hill Giants: This sort of buff would be ok, because since your players are getting +numbers, so are your monsters.

2) Spectres: This wouldn't be as much ok, given that while your players got higher numbers, your monster got more abilities, which generally has more power.

This is all just my opinion, just that monsters and players should scale side-by-side.

Mainly the further into the world they go the difficulty increases. The world is ravaged by monsters. In the day time lots of beasts in the night you can get a great deal of dark subtype monsters. Most monsters travel in packs and would attack in groups. Since the world is more dangerous I wanted to add a buff peo0e can focus on. Showing the adaption to the world. Most creatures outside the safety of city walls wouldn’t be humanoid.

Like there might be a town filled with hill giants but they wouldn’t want to freely roam the world due to the high dangers. This world is where the strong are basically celebrities and can do mainly whatever they want to. But leads to a lot of bad people. Hope this makes sense a little?

The perk is mainly like a gestalt class. That’s all. Just need to make them a tad more balanced before testing out this world.