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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 932675" data-attributes="member: 10820">Yes I am running CotSQ. So yes, they will be underground for several levels. BUUUUUUUUT, I also always play NPCs as smart. Guys losing try to get away (and often do). The NPCs ahead of the party will most likely eventually know most of the parties tactics and will also know that their clerics should prep a daylight spell. Drow Commander: Prep a daylight spell.Drow Cleric: What? That will make us near blind!Drow Commander: Yeah, but it will stop that damn monk from shadow stepping!I'm not intending to adjust the ECL at all. Just considering allowing him to start at a higher level, as if he is bringing in an 8th level character then getting the shade template at that point. In RoF it talks about if a character in game gets a template added then they just have to sit at that level for x number of levels while their companions continue to increase in ability.Thats my intent. Did I not make that clear before? It just means that for expanded power now, the player takes an equipment hit (8th level gear rather than 9th + vow of poverty), is forced to take a feat that is basically otherwise useless (shadow weave magic) and is forced to serve a patron and a patron diety that will cause issues forever (a prince of Shade, and Shar).Oh, and in my heavily modified version of CotSQ the shades are not just sitting on their hands while the drow do their thing. This ties directly into the campaign.In case you ain't figured it out, I am leaning toward's doing this. What I really need are some more balancing factors that might help make this work.- Wraith</blockquote>

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