Re: Campaign pacing

Brandon Blackmoor wrote:
> Peter Knutsen wrote:
>> A more charitable guess is that the vast number of crunchy bits high 
>> level D&D3 characters have is simply too much to handle at once, and 
>> that the only way to cope is to ac***ulate the crunchy bits gradually, 
>> i.e. by starting at low level (with few crunchy bits) and then adding 
>> half a dozen or so after each session.
> 
> I thought this was common knowledge.

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this.

>> This guess, however, fails to explain AD&D, in which there are very, 
> 
>  > very few crunchy bits, and in which charater class choice can easily
>  > "****eld" you from the problem (i.e. by chosing one of those cl*****
>  > which gets very few crunchy bits, or none at all).
> 
> I do not know about AD&D, but in D&D, even characters who do not 
> themselves have an abundance of "crunchy bits" as you call them still 
> have to cope with the existence of those bits in the hands of other 
> characters and opponents (typically through the avenue of "magic 
> items"). It may be maginally easier to play a 18th level rogue than a 

Perhaps I tend to underestimate the prevalence of magic items in pre-3.0?

Even if I don't, you still have a fair point in terms of strange and 
weird abilities that encountered monsters might have. High level 
monsters are likely to have many moe such abilities than monsters 
appropriate for low-level parties.

> 18th level wizard, but it is by no means easy to jump into it cold.

That makes a lot of sense.

> That's my opinion, anyway.

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Peter Knutsen
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