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<blockquote data-quote="kitsune9" data-source="post: 5416553" data-attributes="member: 18507">I don't think you're alone in this. I'm sure that there are some gamers that loved the old school 1e or BECM and like 4e. Understandable. With BECM, I think the slow XP progression can be rescaled so that your players spend more time in the levels they are in. If you take the monsters in BECM, you can create a framework that will limit the progression scale to +20 at the most and it will work in most encounters.Back then, it was pretty much whatever TSR (i.e. Gygax and crew) thought was good design. A matter of personal taste for the game. In 1e, there was some rules on it, although not much. 3e did bring Strongholds Builder Book which was an attempt at building your own castle, dungeon, dwelling. If you can find it, use that for inspiration.This was the only setting that I never got involved with or bought into.But this exercise of meshing the two has to lead to one system. It's a lot of work, but once you've done it, then you'll have a more unified system that functions a lot of what you're looking for. I gave you BECM as an example, but it's not the only system. You could reverse engineer 4e too to strip it down toward your system as well such as removing skills and other things. If you want to go Ye Olde Skool on the characters though and limit their HD and such, then at higher encounters, monster HD and combat will need to be changed.Good luck!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kitsune9, post: 5416553, member: 18507"] I don't think you're alone in this. I'm sure that there are some gamers that loved the old school 1e or BECM and like 4e. Understandable. With BECM, I think the slow XP progression can be rescaled so that your players spend more time in the levels they are in. If you take the monsters in BECM, you can create a framework that will limit the progression scale to +20 at the most and it will work in most encounters. Back then, it was pretty much whatever TSR (i.e. Gygax and crew) thought was good design. A matter of personal taste for the game. In 1e, there was some rules on it, although not much. 3e did bring Strongholds Builder Book which was an attempt at building your own castle, dungeon, dwelling. If you can find it, use that for inspiration. This was the only setting that I never got involved with or bought into. But this exercise of meshing the two has to lead to one system. It's a lot of work, but once you've done it, then you'll have a more unified system that functions a lot of what you're looking for. I gave you BECM as an example, but it's not the only system. You could reverse engineer 4e too to strip it down toward your system as well such as removing skills and other things. If you want to go Ye Olde Skool on the characters though and limit their HD and such, then at higher encounters, monster HD and combat will need to be changed. Good luck! [/QUOTE]

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