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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 2825324" data-attributes="member: 3448">Your new death rule is much better than the first one you proposed, IMO.  I'm still a little bothered by the "double level" effect.  Are you completely unwilling to level asynchronously?  If you're not, then you can do something like:Characters who are below the average level of the party may decline their action points, in which case they level in 7 sessions instead of 10.So Joe the fighter falls behind a level, but when everyone levels up he (still behind a level) levels up without the APs and then catches up to everyone 7 sessions later.  He's on par for three games, and then falls behind again.  He can keep repeating the no APs/7 sessions trick until he's caught up, and you can round off at the end to resynchronize.  Voila!  He eventually catches up, stays underpowered for quite a while, and then is ultimately back on track.The problem I see (besides losing the "everybody levels at once" feature), is that the giving up your action point solutions while still behind means that you are upping the penalty for death:  Not only are you behind in levels, but you're behind a level AND behind APs.Are you worried about seeing a blitz of APs right before leveling?  If I can't carry APs forward, I'm still going to hoard most of the time, but then the session (maybe the two sessions) before levelling, if I'm in a big fight or whatever, I'll spend like there's no tomorrow.  That could be a good thing:  climactic fights where the PCs are particularly heroic.  But it could also be a bad thing, where when you get to a big fight everyone spends too freely and undercuts the challenge (or, worse, when you have an average fight that falls at the wrong time the PCs turn it into a cakewalk).Lastly, I'm a little concerned about the XP to AP conversion stuff, and nonbankability.  I'm a little worried about situations where a PC wants to make an item, so saves the XP for when there's some downtime, but the campaign is going on all cylinders so there's no opportunity for crafting until it's time for the next level up, and so the XP goes into AP for the last session and THEN there's the level up and downtime, and the PC makes their new item but uses most or all of the new XP pool.  That could seem kinda annoying.  (The same thing can happen in the standard system: I'm sorry, you leveled, now that XP is unavailable.  But there you get the benefit of leveling faster.  Here... I could see someone just feeling like they got hosed by the campaign's pacing.)  Of course, if downtime is frequent enough, this concern evaporates.</blockquote>

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