ECL and starting equipment

[CRGreathouse]

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Well, I can't totally agree. "ECL" has come to be used as shorthand for the DMG's "Level Equivalents". People routinely ask for ECL numbers from the DMG, for example.

ECL, as a term, comes from the FRCS. The DMG's level equivilents aren't the same thing - although they're similar.

 

[dcollins]

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ECL, as a term, comes from the FRCS. The DMG's level equivilents aren't the same thing - although they're similar.

I understand that. But almost everyone refers to level equivalents as the "DMG's ECLs"... much in the same way as the terms AOO and MEA appear nowhere in the rules, but have subsequently been applied to them.

 

[Darkness]

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I understand that. But almost everyone refers to level equivalents as the "DMG's ECLs"... much in the same way as the terms AOO and MEA appear nowhere in the rules, but have subsequently been applied to them.

Except that AoO literally stands for Attack of Opportunity, while ECL obviously isn't a real abbreviation of Equivalent Level (no C in there, for one). Further, what's MEA? I don't know that one, so I can't imagine that it's as common as you seem to think it is...?

 

[EOL]

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Except that AoO literally stands for Attack of Opportunity, while ECL obviously isn't a real abbreviation of Equivalent Level (no C in there, for one). Further, what's MEA? I don't know that one, so I can't imagine that it's as common as you seem to think it is...?

Move Equivalent Action.