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<blockquote data-quote="GruTheWanderer" data-source="post: 85144" data-attributes="member: 3119"><p><strong>Re: Non 3e-er</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hi Osric,</p><p></p><p>ECL is Effective Character Level. It is used to balance races which are more powerful than others. For example, a D&D Centaur is an ECL 3 race. This means a first level Centaur character is as powerful as a fourth level character of a standard race (I wish D&D had this when I did allow a player to have a Centaur character long ago). The elves of Middle Earth are supposed to be more powerful than humans, dwarves, orcs, and hobbits, thus their ECL would help a DM balance them with other characters.</p><p></p><p>As for spell components, it's somewhat a matter of taste and somewhat a matter of D&D semantics. I agree that they are not used much in the literature. If they are not required, magic users become more powerful (not vulnerable to silence, being held, losing their possessions, etc). Several feats would also become irrelevant.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, we could assume that those who use magic in the books have abililties (or the Silent Spell, Still Spell feats) which allow them to cast spells without all the mumbo-jumbo.</p><p></p><p>Derek</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GruTheWanderer, post: 85144, member: 3119"] [b]Re: Non 3e-er[/b] Hi Osric, ECL is Effective Character Level. It is used to balance races which are more powerful than others. For example, a D&D Centaur is an ECL 3 race. This means a first level Centaur character is as powerful as a fourth level character of a standard race (I wish D&D had this when I did allow a player to have a Centaur character long ago). The elves of Middle Earth are supposed to be more powerful than humans, dwarves, orcs, and hobbits, thus their ECL would help a DM balance them with other characters. As for spell components, it's somewhat a matter of taste and somewhat a matter of D&D semantics. I agree that they are not used much in the literature. If they are not required, magic users become more powerful (not vulnerable to silence, being held, losing their possessions, etc). Several feats would also become irrelevant. On the other hand, we could assume that those who use magic in the books have abililties (or the Silent Spell, Still Spell feats) which allow them to cast spells without all the mumbo-jumbo. Derek [/QUOTE]
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