Hello everyone,
Normally in my campaign when PCs die they just make new characters, but I recently looked at the rules for level loss from "raise dead" and was surprised at how much tougher (on the PCs) they are than I thought.
Specifically -- it says (PHB3.5, p.171) that the character "...loses one level of experience. The character's new XP total is midway between the minimum needed for his or her new (reduced) level and the minimum needed for the next one."
The problem with this is that if you're really close to levelling when you die, it SUCKS!!
One of the PCs in my game just died when they were literally 200 XP away from the next level.
Now, I'm not one of those people who thinks that you shouldn't lose *any* XP for losing a level. That's too wimpy. But it seems more reasonable that the PC loses something like, say, 1000 XP per their current level. This way they're guaranteed to lose a level but at least they stay in the same relative position to the next level. (This is what my old DM used to do.)
I was wondering how many people use house rules on this?
Jason
Normally in my campaign when PCs die they just make new characters, but I recently looked at the rules for level loss from "raise dead" and was surprised at how much tougher (on the PCs) they are than I thought.
Specifically -- it says (PHB3.5, p.171) that the character "...loses one level of experience. The character's new XP total is midway between the minimum needed for his or her new (reduced) level and the minimum needed for the next one."
The problem with this is that if you're really close to levelling when you die, it SUCKS!!

Now, I'm not one of those people who thinks that you shouldn't lose *any* XP for losing a level. That's too wimpy. But it seems more reasonable that the PC loses something like, say, 1000 XP per their current level. This way they're guaranteed to lose a level but at least they stay in the same relative position to the next level. (This is what my old DM used to do.)
I was wondering how many people use house rules on this?
Jason