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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Have you read Cairn 2es DM book? I suspect you have. What do you think?

I have looked at it online and freeze-framed videos, but don't own it. I will probably pick it up with DriveThruRPG earnings at some point.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

10 levels is great. IME people only regularly get beyond that in 5E through intentional design to speed up leveling at multiple points.

Yeah, I'm power-leveling the 5E Radiant Citadel game I'm running, with PCs leveling after almost every adventure so as to match the level of the next adventure in the campaign. Without that, it would take years to get where my crew is now.

My long-running Ptolus game is going to hit level 10 after their current encounter wraps. The game has been running online since 2006. But no one feels particularly weak and they've done a lot of cool stuff, which is what the players are there for.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Some people just want to see the number go up,

 

[Scribe]

Had to do some editing today, a document I've bounced off of in PDF/Editor form countless times.

Got fed up, printed it, and what a breeze. I just struggle so hard with text on screen, its wild.

So, long story short I need to print all my material, and edit it by hand, I just cannot get it done otherwise it seems.

 

[Retros_x]

Been doing a lot of reading around this, and yeah, the concern around 'only 10 levels' seems so overblown, people have a perception likely thanks to various D&D editions that you need more levels, when they are really just not needed.

especially because most D&D campaigns I played and DMed rarely went over level 10 and I know I am not the only one.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

especially because most D&D campaigns I played and DMed rarely went over level 10 and I know I am not the only one.

I wonder how many people played Throne of Bloodstone back in the day. Everyone know I discussed it, but no one thought it was worth buying, let alone running "level 100" AD&D characters.

 

[GothmogIV]

So, reading through the rulebook: there are a lot of tables for random...stuff. How much of this do you good folks use at the table? I'm curious about whether using these tables in the middle of a game is necessary vs. adding flavor or generating ideas.

 

[Thierry-Advent]

So, reading through the rulebook: there are a lot of tables for random...stuff. How much of this do you good folks use at the table? I'm curious about whether using these tables in the middle of a game is necessary vs. adding flavor or generating ideas.

It's old school, I'm used to rolling on tables in the middle of the game.

It works great for solo gaming.

Also, sometimes lack of inspiration during the preparation step of an adventure can be alleviated by rolling on a table to get the creative juices flowing.

 

[zakael19]

Tables like that are great for following procedures when your players wander off the map of what you'd prepped too!

But a lot of it is probably used to pre-generate things like encounter lists, adventure ideas, etc. THey're really evocative lists.

 

[sevenbastard]

I wonder how many people played Throne of Bloodstone back in the day. Everyone know I discussed it, but no one thought it was worth buying, let alone running "level 100" AD&D characters.

We played it back in high-school, but never finished it.

Obviously we made 100 level characters to play. And because we were given a starting XP budget and we where (are) power gamers, we went the Dual Class Human route. Take 20 levels of Paladin, then 75 levels of Magic User or some such nonsense.

Even then we thought it was a joke of a concept, but played it as a novelty.