Gettin' that gaming groove on!

[the Jester]

Well, I'm gearing up to run my game again- I'm passing five years time and letting the players use various old characters from my campaign. The catch is that the group will be highly varied in level- from 8th to 16th. It should be interesting- I'm trying to figure good ways to make the game challenging to everyone without instantly killing the lower-level guys.

The party consists of:
-A wizard 5/sorcerer 4
-A psychic warrior 7/cleric 3
-A cleric 11
-A psion 4/cleric 4
-A ranger 1/rogue 2/cleric 5/assassin 1/contemplative 4/monk 1 or something like that... I think she's 16th level overall but I could be wrong. (Maybe another assassin level or something?)
[edit: oops, I forgot one!] -An elementalist (custom base class) 11/warrior of chaos 4

It should be an interesting group! Fortunately I think they can all make common cause due to some mutual interests... (Alignments vary from LE to CG- the two high-level clerics, for instance.)

 

[Magius del Cotto]

Lots of RP based enounters and almost exclusive 1 on 1 combat, with the other characters watching and cheering their allies (maybe not friends...) on would probably be the easiest way to handle it (1 on 1 can be tailored to the character fighting, and RP based challenges don't really go up or down because of level). Or you could try "evening magical items" to get everyone on the same level, but that would likely come across as an excuse for them being able to do the same things, not an adequite plot thingy.

 

[alsih2o]

let us know how it goes unka james.

city decided yet?

 

[the Jester]

It should be a blast- I've been feverishly working to set up a way for the various pcs to get together. They're drawn from three different parties that I've run at various points...

Maggius del Cotto: I'm thinking that fights against well-mixed enemies will do the trick for combat encounters (i.e. the party vs. a CR13 baddie and five CR7 lackeys or something). I plan on tying a lot of the characters' initial motives for being where they're gonna be together in a big convoluted knot.

And Mark- no, I haven't decided on a city yet- I'm gonna talk it over with the love slave and prolly take her with me wherever I go, though.

 

[the Jester]

Oops, I forgot to include Lester in that list!