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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 521156" data-attributes="member: 1210">Sir Osis: I use the FR system for xp, and you're right; it does help.  It also helps to level the playing field (though this takes time).  Lord Pendragon: well, speaking of levelling the playing field! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Hmm, I had given thought to trying to equalize the pcs a little but not like you suggest.  One catch with lycanthropy is that there aren't usually moons in my campaign world (you'll usually see one for anywhere from four to thrity months anywhere from once to three times in your life if you're a human... moons are different since my campaign world isn't set on a planet), but I get your meaning.  Hm, I'll have to give it some thought.I wouldn't always have the big bad guy while the little bad guys attack the lower level pcs; but simply having that sort of mix means that the lower level pcs can attack the weaker bad guys if they want to instead of the main one- say, the wights instead of the death knight or whatever.  The heavy hitter on the evil side will choose who to attack based on its own motivations (many of the pcs are known players in the conflict between Law and Chaos and there are many old grudges with extraplanar powers that are going to be involved in the overall campaign's movement, if you know what I mean).  For instance, a devil might especially hate clerics, while a death knight might charge the strongest-looking enemy first, or that guy who was a survivor of an earlier adventure one pc took part in may hold a grudge (one group went through the Gates of Firestorm Keep and made quasi-allies of the duergar, but killed many of them on the way and broke important rules while they were there; another pc has had several minor jail terms for debt, etc; several have been in court in the modron-run Court of Law on Nirvana itself; and so forth). Thanks for the ideas- maybe I'll try to work in the template idea somehow!</blockquote>

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