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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2528724" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Yup.&nbsp; I do have a lot of house rules running 3e; my campaign world initially developed in 1986 running 1e and back then very few house rules were needed.&nbsp; As the world has developed and as the current ruleset has deviated from 1e norms, more changes have been needed.&nbsp; It has taken me a while with 3e to see what changes needed to be made to default demographics to fit my setting, and it's an ongoing process - eg 3e turned out to require far more NPCs above 1st level than 1e (or core 3e demographics), with fewer very high level NPCs (since 20th in 3e is far more powerful than 20th in 1e), in order to keep the right feel.&nbsp; I've settled on 12th in 3e being about equivalent to 20th in 1e in terms of power; with about 50% of NPCs 1st level, half number each higher level.&nbsp; But the important thing is that this is usually only relevant in PC-NPC interaction, eg how many mooks can the PC fighter kill, or what spells can the NPC wizard cast at the PCs.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 2528724, member: 463"] Yup. I do have a lot of house rules running 3e; my campaign world initially developed in 1986 running 1e and back then very few house rules were needed. As the world has developed and as the current ruleset has deviated from 1e norms, more changes have been needed. It has taken me a while with 3e to see what changes needed to be made to default demographics to fit my setting, and it's an ongoing process - eg 3e turned out to require far more NPCs above 1st level than 1e (or core 3e demographics), with fewer very high level NPCs (since 20th in 3e is far more powerful than 20th in 1e), in order to keep the right feel. I've settled on 12th in 3e being about equivalent to 20th in 1e in terms of power; with about 50% of NPCs 1st level, half number each higher level. But the important thing is that this is usually only relevant in PC-NPC interaction, eg how many mooks can the PC fighter kill, or what spells can the NPC wizard cast at the PCs. [/QUOTE]

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