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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4516776" data-attributes="member: 49613">A while back, on another board, Geoffrey McKinney theorized that you could an entire campaign merely with the Holmes Basic rulebook... the blue one with the man-at-arms, wizard and dragon on the cover. That would be a world in which the highest level possible was 3, and so certain monsters were particularly fearsome, etc. It's an interesting idea though I'm not a Holmes man so I suppose I never thought about it too much.I'm not a 4E man either, but I wonder if the same sort of thing is possible with it? Since the Starter Set just came out (and evidently has some monsters in it), and the Rouse revealed that the character building tools on the website will be free up through level 3, it seems as though it would be possible with just the starter set (and maybe a couple of adjuncts, like KoTS) to run an "E3" game of that nature.There seem to be some things favor of it. For example, the fact that evidently low level characters in 4E are still really powerful when compared with commoners (having lots of HP and powers and such) means that a 3rd level party will be really heroic in nature, and a single 3rd level dude is a man to be reckoned with. In addition to the power level in general, the encounter balancing system would give you a good method of eyeballing what will or won't fly against X number of characters of Y level.Against it, there's the fact that the game appears to discourage henchmen, companions and summoned/animated helpers. You'd probably want those around in certain cases... I'm not sure it's really old school if you don't rely on flunkies to a certain extent! Also, there's apparently an odd non-random method of giving out treasure. Are there random tables also? I think you want to be generous with treasure, because it would be nice if the party could stand up to some of the more powerful critters. And that's the last point... it seems that some of the iconic D&D critters might be simply too tough for a 3rd level party of whatever number. Can say 8 3rd levelers really take on a Mind Flayer or a Beholder? I don't know.Anyway, just a thought.</blockquote>

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