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<blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 5750786" data-attributes="member: 2710"><p>Should have responded to this earlier. Apologies.</p><p></p><p>The APL for the adventure is 5. For me, that involves recruiting characters in the 4-6 range, 1 level below or above the APL. </p><p></p><p>While technically Veniarus could enter a party at level 3 if he had a level 7 character to balance him (say, if [MENTION=88649]perrinmiller[/MENTION] decides to us DMC to level Cythera again), I've found that a level disparity of more than 2 makes it extremely difficult to have encounters that work for everyone. Either the high level characters are wiping the floor with everyone without breaking a sweat, and / or the low level characters are hiding in the corner / getting their behinds handed to them. </p><p></p><p>I don't think that's fun to play, and I know it wouldn't be fun for me to run. I still find the crunch of running games taxing; the added complexity of having to try to adjust a bunch of encounters (either ahead of time or on the fly) makes the whole thing too frustrating for me, I'm afraid.</p><p></p><p>Mind you, as long as it's taking to have a party available, Veniarus may be level 4 or higher by then, so the whole discussion becomes moot. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jkason, post: 5750786, member: 2710"] Should have responded to this earlier. Apologies. The APL for the adventure is 5. For me, that involves recruiting characters in the 4-6 range, 1 level below or above the APL. While technically Veniarus could enter a party at level 3 if he had a level 7 character to balance him (say, if [MENTION=88649]perrinmiller[/MENTION] decides to us DMC to level Cythera again), I've found that a level disparity of more than 2 makes it extremely difficult to have encounters that work for everyone. Either the high level characters are wiping the floor with everyone without breaking a sweat, and / or the low level characters are hiding in the corner / getting their behinds handed to them. I don't think that's fun to play, and I know it wouldn't be fun for me to run. I still find the crunch of running games taxing; the added complexity of having to try to adjust a bunch of encounters (either ahead of time or on the fly) makes the whole thing too frustrating for me, I'm afraid. Mind you, as long as it's taking to have a party available, Veniarus may be level 4 or higher by then, so the whole discussion becomes moot. :p [/QUOTE]
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