![]() The level 1 PCs at my table kept getting slaughtered. This wouldn’t have been such a bad thing if the encounter difficulty didn’t ramp up so sharply in chapter two. At the end of the fist chapter none of the players at my table had enough XP to level whereas all the players at the other table did. The result was that the other table ended up with more XP because they faced deadlier challenges. The other table was made up of more experienced players so the DM challenged them by beefing things up. My table had a lot of first-timers so I usually stuck pretty close to the adventure as written. And then disparity happened.Īt my FLGS we ran two tables all season. This let the players who showed up more often gain the benefit of leveling up before those players who only shower up once and a while. Tracking XPĪt first I thought that tracking XP individually was a great idea. The importance of the role-playing parts were really emphasized when players learned that there was just as much XP up for grabs for role-playing as there was for the combat part of the encounter. In almost every encounter there was an opportunity to role-play and in many cases there was even a structured skill challenge. Role-playing? What’s that? But this season was a lot different and a lot better. You built a character for combat, killed all the monsters, and that was it. ![]() ![]() #Phantom brigade review series#One of the biggest complaints I had about previous seasons was that they played out like a series of dungeon delves. ![]() In the end only a couple of players were actually using classes and races from non-essentials materials anyway so I don’t think it was such a big deal. My thought was that I’d rather have you play the character you want to play, even if he’s technically not allowed, and keep coming back every week than be forced to play a character you hate and never return. If you made a character in character builder I allowed him regardless of class or race. Although the character were all supposed to be created using D&D Essentials products, I wasn’t that restrictive. This season more than any of the previous season we had a lot more players make their own characters. ![]()
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