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[DragonBelow]

Ignoring the XP tables is a legitimate choice and I think that at the higher levels somewhat necessary. So is starting out at third. There is nothing wrong with levelling slowly. I can certainly see the merit of it.

I have been running a 3 year campaign (with spelljammer elements), once a week for about a year and every other week since the pandemic. The characters are 11th level. We're running a hail mary scenario to end it next week, because we want to start a spelljammer campaign. We certainly didn't rush to 11th level. We started using milestones to slow it down. Characters in the spelljammer campaign will start at 3rd level because paraphrasing a spelljammer book: in wildspace, there is always a bigger fish.

 

[Hussar]

AFAIC, I’m so tired of levels 1-4, both as a dm and a player that slipping through them as fast as possible is a good thing.

Ten years and I’ve done levels 1-4 as a dm or a player about 8 or 9 times. Pretty much once a year. I’ve hit double digit levels like once.

Yeah count me in on fast forwarding through the first five levels.

 

[Delazar]

is there a way to print this out as a PDF?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

is there a way to print this out as a PDF?

Copy it into Word, then save it as a PDF.

 

[M_Natas]

I mean, Adventures in Space and Wildspace specifically began with a section on how to get your groundling characters into space, so from the get-go the assumption was that most parties would start on the ground and then discover a way into the Phlo (or the Astral, as it is now).

Yeah, I'm reading right now the Spelljammer Novel Series. The first book (out of six) has nothing to do with spelljamming. Just freaking 300 pages on how the one character got on the ship. All the spelljamming starts only in book 2. It was so annoying.
If I would play in a game that was advertised as spelljammer, but would have to play 20 sessions before I actually leave the planet, I would be pissed

 

[Reynard]

Yeah, I'm reading right now the Spelljammer Novel Series. The first book (out of six) has nothing to do with spelljamming. Just freaking 300 pages on how the one character got on the ship. All the spelljamming starts only in book 2. It was so annoying.
If I would play in a game that was advertised as spelljammer, but would have to play 20 sessions before I actually leave the planet, I would be pissed

That would be like playing a traditional medieval fantasy D&D campaign and require 4 or 5 sessions of working menial jobs in the village and collecting enough coppers to buy their basic equipment before going off to the first dungeon.

Hint to all game players, game masters, and game designers: the adventure starts when the ADVENTURE STARTS.

 

[SkidAce]

Copy it into Word, then save it as a PDF.

Why not just straight print to pdf?

I mean no harm and your way works, but why the extra step with Word?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Why not just straight print to pdf?

I mean no harm and your way works, but why the extra step with Word?

Formatting gets wonky if you print straight to pdf.

 

[Reynard]

Why not just straight print to pdf?

I mean no harm and your way works, but why the extra step with Word?

Well, someone might gasp share it on the internet and that would be a catastrophe. Or something.

 

[Cap'n Kobold]

Scro are still Space Orcs.

You wot? They ain't got near enuff zoggin' Dakka!