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<blockquote data-quote="Simia Saturnalia" data-source="post: 3838653" data-attributes="member: 53692">I'd like you to indulge me in an exercise.Pretend that I've played a couple 6-month campaigns of 3.5, so I know how the rules work, but always in pre-written adventures. Let's assume they've all been pretty good modules, and the GM was workmanlike but not remarkable. Now I've stepping up to the plate to run some 3.5, and the levels 1-3 and 3-7 modules I bought have served me well. Now I'm striking out on my own, writing the next arc based on PC intentions to take them from 7 to roughly 11, and I'm writing some undead encounters I want to be challenging, but not disastrous for the party.Now for whatever reason, I don't read gaming forums and basically trust the 3.5 design team to have made a balanced game with the core books. Tell me what would make it obvious, while I'm sitting at home with my core books and a notepad, that I shouldn't use a bodak just like any other CR 8 undead.EDIT: Because the DM I've just described is the most important one the hobby has; the first-timer new to the game, whose future gaming likely hinges on how his first DMing goes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Simia Saturnalia, post: 3838653, member: 53692"] I'd like you to indulge me in an exercise. Pretend that I've played a couple 6-month campaigns of 3.5, so I know how the rules work, but always in pre-written adventures. Let's assume they've all been pretty good modules, and the GM was workmanlike but not remarkable. Now I've stepping up to the plate to run some 3.5, and the levels 1-3 and 3-7 modules I bought have served me well. Now I'm striking out on my own, writing the next arc based on PC intentions to take them from 7 to roughly 11, and I'm writing some undead encounters I want to be challenging, but not disastrous for the party. Now for whatever reason, I don't read gaming forums and basically trust the 3.5 design team to have made a balanced game with the core books. Tell me what would make it obvious, while I'm sitting at home with my core books and a notepad, that I shouldn't use a bodak just like any other CR 8 undead. EDIT: Because the DM I've just described is the most important one the hobby has; the first-timer new to the game, whose future gaming likely hinges on how his first DMing goes. [/QUOTE]

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