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<blockquote data-quote="DanMcS" data-source="post: 1289017" data-attributes="member: 6530">Yeah.&nbsp; Low-level modern characters are really fragile, compared to low-level D&amp;D characters.&nbsp; Your average 1st-level fantasy group will consist of some heavily armed &amp; armored badasses with magical healing and firepower, going against the equivalent of mooks.&nbsp; Your average 1st-level modern character will have simple weapon proficiency, be unable to afford any armor, or anything but a cheap gun that he isn't proficient with anyway, have no healing abilities to speak of, and be going up against mooks whose average damage on a hit is at or above his hit point total.&nbsp; Low level modern is ugly.You can tweak out characters a bit more, such that you get firearms proficiency from your occupation, for instance, but you're still rather less competant than a 1st level fighter or rogue would be, probably.In the game I played for, oh, 8 or 9 months, it wasn't until we hit 4th or 5th level that we began to feel our characters were approaching being competant to survive what they were doing.And, as an aside, being a mage in modern is hard.&nbsp; You have to be 4th level to even get into the advanced class, at which point you're effectively a 1st level wizard versus 4th and 5th level opponents.&nbsp; It ended up being much more useful to enchant my gun with Magic Weapon and move on.&nbsp; And that was probably cheating, because we were never quite clear how Magic Weapon affected missile weapons, heh.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DanMcS, post: 1289017, member: 6530"] Yeah. Low-level modern characters are really fragile, compared to low-level D&D characters. Your average 1st-level fantasy group will consist of some heavily armed & armored badasses with magical healing and firepower, going against the equivalent of mooks. Your average 1st-level modern character will have simple weapon proficiency, be unable to afford any armor, or anything but a cheap gun that he isn't proficient with anyway, have no healing abilities to speak of, and be going up against mooks whose average damage on a hit is at or above his hit point total. Low level modern is ugly. You can tweak out characters a bit more, such that you get firearms proficiency from your occupation, for instance, but you're still rather less competant than a 1st level fighter or rogue would be, probably. In the game I played for, oh, 8 or 9 months, it wasn't until we hit 4th or 5th level that we began to feel our characters were approaching being competant to survive what they were doing. And, as an aside, being a mage in modern is [i]hard[/i]. You have to be 4th level to even get into the advanced class, at which point you're effectively a 1st level wizard versus 4th and 5th level opponents. It ended up being much more useful to enchant my gun with Magic Weapon and move on. And that was probably cheating, because we were never quite clear how Magic Weapon affected missile weapons, heh. [/QUOTE]

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