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<blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 4967753" data-attributes="member: 37250"><p>You did arrive at a very bad time, though. HolyMan jumped in right as a few new 1st level PCs appeared, and a couple more got out of a stalled game. Like buses, we had no clerics, and then several came along at once. I still think we're in a vicious circle situation, where a small part of the reason no one's offering to run adventures is that there aren't enough characters around to make up decent parties.No, I didn't think that. Although some kinds of powergaming are kinda pointless in a PbP starting from 1st level. You need to play something that you find interesting from lowest levels, rather than planning for something that only works at upper-middle levels when a feat chain completes. Unless of course you do mess with XP advancement to get to middle levels within a reasonable time, but then you'll just find that you zip right through the remaining levels without ever doing anything!Not quite so long, if it takes 10 years to go all the way to 20th. More like 3 or 4 years before entering the PrC. Which isn't really all that long (at least, at my age it doesn't seem very long <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> ). Learner is a hideous abomination, incidentally, that was only approved because the judges of the time were worn down by GnomeWorks' persistence, after 2 years (!) of discussion. At least, that's how I heard it. It suffers from a conceptual problem in that its list of learnable abilities covers only SRD monsters, whereas many adventures use creatures from MM II-V, or other sources.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trouvere, post: 4967753, member: 37250"] You did arrive at a very bad time, though. HolyMan jumped in right as a few new 1st level PCs appeared, and a couple more got out of a stalled game. Like buses, we had no clerics, and then several came along at once. I still think we're in a vicious circle situation, where a small part of the reason no one's offering to run adventures is that there aren't enough characters around to make up decent parties.No, I didn't think that. Although some kinds of powergaming are kinda pointless in a PbP starting from 1st level. You need to play something that you find interesting from lowest levels, rather than planning for something that only works at upper-middle levels when a feat chain completes. Unless of course you do mess with XP advancement to get to middle levels within a reasonable time, but then you'll just find that you zip right through the remaining levels without ever doing anything!Not quite so long, if it takes 10 years to go all the way to 20th. More like 3 or 4 years before entering the PrC. Which isn't really all that long (at least, at my age it doesn't seem very long :uhoh: ). Learner is a hideous abomination, incidentally, that was only approved because the judges of the time were worn down by GnomeWorks' persistence, after 2 years (!) of discussion. At least, that's how I heard it. It suffers from a conceptual problem in that its list of learnable abilities covers only SRD monsters, whereas many adventures use creatures from MM II-V, or other sources. [/QUOTE]
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