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<blockquote data-quote="Roman" data-source="post: 3348175" data-attributes="member: 1845">There are some great suggestions here! I will grant the characters something that will boost them directly. I am not going to give them extra wealth, some magical items, or better equipment. That is not my style. In fact, knowing myself, the characters will probably end up with significantly fewer magic items than the 'wealth by level' guidelines suggest, which will no doubt underpower them further. Indeed, I may have to give them further abilities to compensate for that too, but I (and these players generally too) prefer this approach than the huge reliance on magical abilities implied by the guidelines. Still, that is a topic for another thread. Plenty of suggestions made are useful, but perhaps the most common are higher stats and/or action points. I already use a very generous character generation method for ability score generation (6 + 3d6 drop the lowest), so that will surely help them. I was also toying with implementing an action point system in the past, so I have one ready to use and given the number of suggestions proposing its use I probably will use it. I am unsure with respect to how balanced it is, but I think with only three characters and my stinginess with equipment I don't need to worry about it too much. Luck points in the system can even be used to avoid death, so in a way they grant them 'boon of extra lives' too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Roman, post: 3348175, member: 1845"] There are some great suggestions here! I will grant the characters something that will boost them directly. I am not going to give them extra wealth, some magical items, or better equipment. That is not my style. In fact, knowing myself, the characters will probably end up with significantly fewer magic items than the 'wealth by level' guidelines suggest, which will no doubt underpower them further. Indeed, I may have to give them further abilities to compensate for that too, but I (and these players generally too) prefer this approach than the huge reliance on magical abilities implied by the guidelines. Still, that is a topic for another thread. Plenty of suggestions made are useful, but perhaps the most common are higher stats and/or action points. I already use a very generous character generation method for ability score generation (6 + 3d6 drop the lowest), so that will surely help them. I was also toying with implementing an action point system in the past, so I have one ready to use and given the number of suggestions proposing its use I probably will use it. I am unsure with respect to how balanced it is, but I think with only three characters and my stinginess with equipment I don't need to worry about it too much. Luck points in the system can even be used to avoid death, so in a way they grant them 'boon of extra lives' too. [/QUOTE]

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