House rulebook finished. reviews welcome
- Thread starter Emirikol
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I'll take a look at it shortly.
Alright I looked at it. It looks fine to me, but I have 2 questions/comments-
1)Why are you starting replacement characters with less character wealth? Dying is usually punishment enough, and you just make them more likely to die again under this system. Unless, that is, if starting characters begin with less character wealth, but I didn't see any such indication. Correct me if I'm wrong.
2)The effects of cold metal are a little bit crazy. I live in a climate that easily gets down below -20F during the winters, and people don't take a hit point's worth of damage for touching their car for 6 seconds. That's basically ludicrous. I know you got that from frostburn, which is a silly book.
Alright I looked at it. It looks fine to me, but I have 2 questions/comments-
1)Why are you starting replacement characters with less character wealth? Dying is usually punishment enough, and you just make them more likely to die again under this system. Unless, that is, if starting characters begin with less character wealth, but I didn't see any such indication. Correct me if I'm wrong.
2)The effects of cold metal are a little bit crazy. I live in a climate that easily gets down below -20F during the winters, and people don't take a hit point's worth of damage for touching their car for 6 seconds. That's basically ludicrous. I know you got that from frostburn, which is a silly book.
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Emirikol
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Thanks for the questions. Answers inline below.
Yes, after 5 campaigns, I can tell you the players have told me that it should remain a world with regular use of back-up characters. Death is not a punishment it's an opportunity to play a new character
It's actually HARDER to die than in regular D&D with the -9 rule, but that hasn't stopped one player from losing a couple characters 
When it comes to back-up character reductions, yes, you have to "rebuild" a character's status (x.p. and wealth). It's not an entitlement.
That's what I thought, having grown up in Minnesota. TO get frostbite, you'd have to be wet and skin to metal. It must be fantasy magical cold.
jh
Brazeku said:
Yes, after 5 campaigns, I can tell you the players have told me that it should remain a world with regular use of back-up characters. Death is not a punishment it's an opportunity to play a new character
It's actually HARDER to die than in regular D&D with the -9 rule, but that hasn't stopped one player from losing a couple characters When it comes to back-up character reductions, yes, you have to "rebuild" a character's status (x.p. and wealth). It's not an entitlement.
Brazeku said:
That's what I thought, having grown up in Minnesota. TO get frostbite, you'd have to be wet and skin to metal. It must be fantasy magical cold.
jh
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Emirikol said:Yes, after 5 campaigns, I can tell you the players have told me that it should remain a world with regular use of back-up characters. Death is not a punishment it's an opportunity to play a new character
When it comes to back-up character reductions, yes, you have to "rebuild" a character's status (x.p. and wealth). It's not an entitlement.
jh
Ah, fair enough! Can't argue with player preference, that's what the game's about, after all.
Emirikol
Adventurer
Thurbane said:
I think it's been saved as a Word 2007 document. I'll save it as an older version and upload a second copy. It's too big to upload here I think.
File uploaded and reachable from the following project:
http://www.savefile.com/projects/808511749
If you want to link directly to the file:
http://www.savefile.com/files/917615
Thanks for the notice.
Jh
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