thedungeondelver
Adventurer
Disagree. D&D of any stripe should do what the DM wants it to do. If the game is gritty all the way up to 9th level, then that's the DM's prerogative.
It's all in how you run your campaign.
D&D changes every 5 levels by design...
Disagree. D&D of any stripe should do what the DM wants it to do. If the game is gritty all the way up to 9th level, then that's the DM's prerogative.
It's all in how you run your campaign.
Obergnom said:
Have you played previous editions? For example, in Menzter (Basic/Expert/Companion/Master with the Elmore covers) advancement goes all the way to 36th level... but like all pre-3E D&D, you stop gaining Hit Dice at 9th level.
I think that one thing which 3E does that totally changes the way the level progression works in the game is giving Hit Dice past 9th level. So that high level characters walk around with enormous sums of hit points. That makes it a lot different from the previous rules sets.
Obergnom
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Korgoth said:
Yep, I played AD&D 2nd for many many years, but the rest of my group did not, and some of them refuse to even try a Castles&Crusades campaign. A game which IMO changes what was bad about 2nd Ed. without beeing a totally differnt game, which is how I see 3E. (Not that I do not like 3E, it is just not D&D to me.)
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
MerricB said:
I think it is more proper to say that D&D changes each and every level by design, changes significantly at many odd levels, and changes radically at ninth level and seventeenth level. The "every five levels" observation doesn't really hold up well when you crunch the numbers and look more closely.
