Re: what is it about angels?

In article <1170708888.688372.323440@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Will in New Haven <bill.reich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>The above campaign lasted about a year as what I described and then,
>when the PCs were high-level by our standards, all Hell broke loose
>and what has been sometimes called the Second Demon War or DW2 became
>partly their problem. It wasn't nearly as much fun and we all
>regretted leaving the lower-challenge campaign behind after DW2 was
>over. However, the players had been pressing for ways to use their new
>powers and stuff. The general reaction in our after-campaign
>evaluation was that DW2 was a pretty good adventure but Touring with
>the Wild Hunt was much better.

Yes, I've been in that situation too.  It's even worse when you can
see during the campaign that things are heading into less-fun territory,
but you can't put the genie back into the bottle.

About a year (of play time) after Chernoi became a Magistrate and thus
a really im****tant person in her setting, she had occasion to impersonate
a tramp merchant star****p for a couple of weeks--her previous profession.
I ended up feeling (and so did the PCs) that this was in many ways more
fun than the normal action of the campaign.  It was liberating to have
such small resources and so few big responsibilities, and to be able to
cheat ****t officials without it meaning anything major.

One of my frustrations with v3.5 is that the pressure to escalate is
built into the rules in such a variety of ways--starting with the XP
tables, of course, but also the diversity of prestige cl***** that
cannot be entered until 6th-8th level, and the feats and feat chains with
similar restrictions, and the fundamental class abilities that don't
appear until fairly late, like druidic shape****fting.  Also the default
DC for many tasks, such as picking locks, works best for rather high-level
PCs.  You can run stable low-level games if you throw out the XP
system, but when I do it I feel the rules fighting me all the way.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]