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<blockquote data-quote="Hellhound87" data-source="post: 6299854" data-attributes="member: 6775203"><p>Alright, let me first say that as far as game experience is concerned, I have about two years experience as a player. My DM in my current game has been using me to bounce ideas about upcoming campaigns, plot twists and hooks, etc. and made the suggestion that I should DM my own campaign, insisting that I'd be really good at it. Well, in order to come up with a campaign, I decided to tailor some rules and create my own house rules. The house rules SO FAR are as follows:</p><p></p><p></p><p>This campaign is obviously a Tier 2-3 campaign. Now I do have a few questions regarding balance issues.</p><p></p><p>First, is Wild Shape so powerful that a Spontaneous Druid would still be Tier 1 even without the ability to prepare spells? (I know that Wild Shape Ranger is Tier 3 while Ranger is Tier 4, for example)</p><p></p><p>Second, I believe access to two domains as a Spontaneous Cleric is still a little much for this campaign (two free spells per spell level). How about lowering it down to one domain?</p><p></p><p>Third, what are the foreseeable balance issues for these rules? My players aren't experienced in optimizing and think fireball is a wonderful spell *shudders*, and the one or two veterans I have aren't interested in creating a fully optimized character.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure I'll have many more questions, especially if/when you guys point something out that I didn't think about, but these are all I can think of now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hellhound87, post: 6299854, member: 6775203"] Alright, let me first say that as far as game experience is concerned, I have about two years experience as a player. My DM in my current game has been using me to bounce ideas about upcoming campaigns, plot twists and hooks, etc. and made the suggestion that I should DM my own campaign, insisting that I'd be really good at it. Well, in order to come up with a campaign, I decided to tailor some rules and create my own house rules. The house rules SO FAR are as follows: This campaign is obviously a Tier 2-3 campaign. Now I do have a few questions regarding balance issues. First, is Wild Shape so powerful that a Spontaneous Druid would still be Tier 1 even without the ability to prepare spells? (I know that Wild Shape Ranger is Tier 3 while Ranger is Tier 4, for example) Second, I believe access to two domains as a Spontaneous Cleric is still a little much for this campaign (two free spells per spell level). How about lowering it down to one domain? Third, what are the foreseeable balance issues for these rules? My players aren't experienced in optimizing and think fireball is a wonderful spell *shudders*, and the one or two veterans I have aren't interested in creating a fully optimized character. I'm sure I'll have many more questions, especially if/when you guys point something out that I didn't think about, but these are all I can think of now. [/QUOTE]
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