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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4153161" data-attributes="member: 50987">My reasons for wanting to cap the level advancement so low are purely nostalgic.My "regular" gaming group is pretty much a straight-up 3.5E campaign...high-level, high-magic, in a homebrew world.  The party is ~16th level, and will probably be Epic (~25th level) by the time they conclude the adventure path.  It's a good time, and everyone is having fun with their superheroes.This weekend, though, I will be starting up a "second" gaming group.  And this time, insted of the same old 3.5E adventure path, I want to run all of my old "B" and "X" modules instead.  To do that, I needed a way to preserve that gritty, low-level flavor of these modules no matter how many times we game together or how many adventures we complete.I had been wracking my brain, trying to find a way to do this without sucking out all of the fun or creating a game balance nightmare.  Since SP pointed me to the E6 rules, I've been hammering out notes like crazy.  This is going to be awesome.As SP pointed out (and as the E6 documents state directly), the "Epic 6" level is arbitrary; you should adjust it to suit your gaming style, campaign setting, or even the specific adventures you want to run.  For example, if you were going to spend a month or two playing the Isle of Dread module ("for character levels 3 thru 7"), you could start everyone at 3rd level and cap it at 7th.  That way, the module stays fun and balanced no matter how long the party stays on the island, without the hassle of scaling the encounters.I know one fellow who built a whole shipwreck/survival adventure path, taking place entirely on the Isle of Dread...it was all very reminiscent of the TV series "Lost."  Now, imagine how lame would it have been for that whole series of adventures to end with "my cleric is 11th level now, so she casts word of recall and everyone goes home!  Go me!"</blockquote>

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