by Moonlight_Fox

pdzoch wrote:

Controversial take incoming:
I kinda feel like most RPGs with levels are deliberately designed to be incremental in the rules application, not just in character abilities.
D&D often groups the levels into tiers. It is often said that it is not until 3rd level (generally) that the character really feels like they have all the elements that make their class unique. I always like to start at 1st level, but many experienced players start at higher levels because they do not need to learn the game or their class. Starting at 5th level is perfectly acceptable for experienced players, especially if it is a familiar class. Also, the game tends to change scope and scale, change from solving small problems locally to larger problems on a national, strategic, and political scale, and at the highest end cosmic scale.

I can definitely see where you're coming from with that, for the more 'paper button' style designs in particular where additional levels tend to mean additional class abilities, feats, etc - Though also games with more horizontal growth rather than numbered levels where everything just keeps getting more powerful and no classes a lot of the time progression is 'you gain an additional ability,' I think it's mainly skill based systems that seem to not have that going on, at least based on what I've played in games with any sort of character progression.

by Olafslomp

Thanks for bringing this back! Good to have a place to chase my dimes for review purposes.

by paxtt

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Druid_Kenir wrote:

Can you define "high level"

Level 15

by KatharinaKuo

I completely agree with your impressions. I mostly used the chapter on artefacts when I ran the Throne of Thorns campaign, because it contains some unique stuff that fits the setting really well. I also liked the chapter on expeditions, but by the time the GMG came out, we had already played through the first few adventures, and I had created my own expedition tables.

Actually, I was really interested in the domain rules at first, because my group had decided to establish an outpost in Davokar to provide shelter for outcasts, refugees, etc. However, I ended up never using the rules, because I found the management aspect rather boring. It was much more interesting to focus on the problems that arise when you have goblins, criminals, and other groups living together in a fortress ruin that still holds some secrets...

Anyway: Thanks for the review, and I hope we'll get to read even more Symbaroum reviews in the future!

by Michael Hopcroft

Steve Dubya wrote:

Michael Hopcroft wrote:

Can you gain Bio-E from experience (either increasing automatically with level or by investing XP)?

Not that I've ever seen, no. The only things I have seen that can change the starting Bio-E total is either being forcibly traveled through time (a la Transdimensional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) OR there was a device as part of one of the adventures in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Adventures! that could be used to boost Bio-E amounts to give like, superpowers and stuff.

Does that mean Wujick simply got his sums wrong then?

Also, how much longer do we have before Palladium's license finally expires? I'm honestly surp[rised they have been able to hold on to it this long — same for Robotech.

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