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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 508559" data-attributes="member: 3146">I've run and played in 28, 30, 32, and 36 point buy campaigns.25 point buy is the standard array of playtest characters (or so I'm told). I've never run a campaign that low but I think it'd be interesting and fun. If I run another campaign it will be 25 or 28 points.28 points is what I'm told 4d6 drop lowest averages out to after hopeless characters are discarded. It seems to allow for a good variety of characters who can either be quite powerful or quite weak depending upon construction.30 points is what my RtToEE character (and all the other characters) was built on. We made it to the Crater Ridge Mines with a grand total of two deaths (and one of them wouldn't have been a death if the player hadn't insisted on playing a half dragon barbarian--good armor class and insane strength but low hp=dead barbarian).32 point buy is what my Living City and Living Arcanis characters are built on. By this point, characters are definitely larger than life. Having played at this level for a while, I'd say that 32 point buy is very close to being equivalent to 1 ECL above the normal character level.36 point buy is where I ran my first campaign. It's hard to build a 36 point buy character who doesn't kick serious butt. Having run that campaign for a year and half, I'd say that 36 point buy is probably equivalent to ECL 1.5 or so when compared to 28.Above 36 point buy, you start getting superman characters who are effectively a couple levels higher than their experience would indicate.I would recommend 28 point buy with 30 points if you want powerful characters. You might find it interesting to use 32 point buy but allow characters to play ECL +1 races at no penalty if they only use 25 points for their stats.</blockquote>

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