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<blockquote data-quote="Tyrian_Spellstealer" data-source="post: 3524034" data-attributes="member: 36470"><p>Well yeah, I play some powerful characters myself, and some not so powerful ones. The major problem is enforcement and definition of what is 'too powerful' in a free form setting. I mean, you COULD pin it down to a character sheet concept, but for some people that just wouldn't fly because they never knew 'time stop' had a spell level.</p><p></p><p>That said, there IS a desire for a low challenge (well, I think, I know I get sick of maximised meteor swarms getting thrown around casually), and Eberron IS the setting for that. The real question is: IS it doable?</p><p></p><p>Beyond capping use of abilities above a certain level, I can't think of much more honestly. Is that enough? The lazy part of me would like to think so.</p><p></p><p>So maybe lets change the perspective: Eberron Setting. Lets take the 'Lightning Rail Coach' Room as an example:</p><p></p><p>Sitting on the lightning rail with a character you've already climbed into a bag of worms: Why is your character on a lightning rail? Some journeys via lightning rail can take days, if your character is powerful enough to simply 'teleport' or 'jump planes', why the hell is he/she using easily available relatively slow public transport?</p><p></p><p>So, your character gets in a fight with another character. To stop the screaming of the Warforged barman (...because it would SO be a warforged bot) the characters climb the hatch (or, if it was extremely violent, jump out the window) and find themselves up on the roof of the train, fighting toe to toe in classic Eberron style action.</p><p>Maybe one of them is flying, and throwing fireballs, and maybe one of them is riding a glidewing (pterodactyle like creature) and throwing battle axes! Sounds ridiculous, but is all doable with low level characters (fly and fireball is a 3rd levels spell, and druids/talenta halflings could have trained mounts). </p><p></p><p>Justification/moderation: passengers see someone flying around throwing spells, they're going to be upset, but not more then seeing spells thrown around in a tavern (CRT) or local market place (Bazaar). Chances are the driver is going to keep driving that elemental powered vehical, because there are lots of paying customers that shouldn't be kept waiting due to a minor set back such as that.</p><p></p><p>Now, lets say that instead of flying and throwing fireballs, one of those characters has transformed into a Baalor, and the other is riding a fully grown dragon. Clearly a violation of the power level for that setting (why either would be riding a lightning rail coach, after all?)</p><p>Few passengers see a how many foot tall demon with a firey sword and a dragon breathing fire, chances are its going to mean trouble. In terms of moderation and justification of why that shouldn't be in the room: that means the driver stopping the coach from too many complaints/ risk of being imploded by stray dragon tail.</p><p></p><p>Does this mean you can stick up a sign saying: "Nothing above 15th level!". No. Does this mean that with some thought out guidelines that the concept is doable? I would like to think it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tyrian_Spellstealer, post: 3524034, member: 36470"] Well yeah, I play some powerful characters myself, and some not so powerful ones. The major problem is enforcement and definition of what is 'too powerful' in a free form setting. I mean, you COULD pin it down to a character sheet concept, but for some people that just wouldn't fly because they never knew 'time stop' had a spell level. That said, there IS a desire for a low challenge (well, I think, I know I get sick of maximised meteor swarms getting thrown around casually), and Eberron IS the setting for that. The real question is: IS it doable? Beyond capping use of abilities above a certain level, I can't think of much more honestly. Is that enough? The lazy part of me would like to think so. So maybe lets change the perspective: Eberron Setting. Lets take the 'Lightning Rail Coach' Room as an example: Sitting on the lightning rail with a character you've already climbed into a bag of worms: Why is your character on a lightning rail? Some journeys via lightning rail can take days, if your character is powerful enough to simply 'teleport' or 'jump planes', why the hell is he/she using easily available relatively slow public transport? So, your character gets in a fight with another character. To stop the screaming of the Warforged barman (...because it would SO be a warforged bot) the characters climb the hatch (or, if it was extremely violent, jump out the window) and find themselves up on the roof of the train, fighting toe to toe in classic Eberron style action. Maybe one of them is flying, and throwing fireballs, and maybe one of them is riding a glidewing (pterodactyle like creature) and throwing battle axes! Sounds ridiculous, but is all doable with low level characters (fly and fireball is a 3rd levels spell, and druids/talenta halflings could have trained mounts). Justification/moderation: passengers see someone flying around throwing spells, they're going to be upset, but not more then seeing spells thrown around in a tavern (CRT) or local market place (Bazaar). Chances are the driver is going to keep driving that elemental powered vehical, because there are lots of paying customers that shouldn't be kept waiting due to a minor set back such as that. Now, lets say that instead of flying and throwing fireballs, one of those characters has transformed into a Baalor, and the other is riding a fully grown dragon. Clearly a violation of the power level for that setting (why either would be riding a lightning rail coach, after all?) Few passengers see a how many foot tall demon with a firey sword and a dragon breathing fire, chances are its going to mean trouble. In terms of moderation and justification of why that shouldn't be in the room: that means the driver stopping the coach from too many complaints/ risk of being imploded by stray dragon tail. Does this mean you can stick up a sign saying: "Nothing above 15th level!". No. Does this mean that with some thought out guidelines that the concept is doable? I would like to think it is. [/QUOTE]
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