Questions tagged [character-levels]
For questions about character levels, the numbered steps used in some RPGs to indicate advancement of character capabilities. The higher a character's level is, the more broadly powerful the character is.
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Is my DM taking too long to level us up? [closed]
We spent 13 sessions, which usually run about 4 hours, just to get from our starting level of 4 to level 5. Our campaign is heavier on role play and problem solving (we’re trying to solve a mystery ...
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How Does Acquiring LA+1 Affect Experience Points? [duplicate]
I want to understand what happens if my character, who has 4000 XP, acquires a LA+1 template during the game.
I understand that since they would be level 3, their ECL would become 4, but what happens ...
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What is the recommended level for each published adventure?
I thought I would ask a different take on a question that seems to be asked often here (I need an adventure for level x).
What I am looking for is a list of official sources and the recommended level(...
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How high level should my party of 4 be before facing the lich bbeg?
A bit about the story of my campaign- the party is an elite adventurers guild employed and funded by the emperor. When they complete the quests of delivering the items to the emperor, they discover ...
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Can an Intellect Devourer in its new body continue to gain levels? (D&D 5e)
In D&D 5e, When an Intellect Devourer consumes the brain of a 3rd-level fighter, for instance, can it continue to gain fighter levels?
Or due to its monstrous nature, is it locked to that 3rd-...
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Can a revived character keep levels they gained while they were a ghost?
Assuming a human (Ftr 1) becomes a ghost, gains a level on Wizard (Ftr 1/Wiz 1) and now is revived by resurrection, would he lose his wizard level, or would that level not be counted and cause him to ...
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Does the Draconic Aura feat improve by character level or class level?
Let's say you're a silverbrown human and have the draconic aura feat. Normally you'd be stuck with a +1 aura, but since you have the dragonblood subtype, the feat states that:
If you are of the ...
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Epic Characters and Creatures Advancement Rules
The reason why I asked Level up with Humanoid, is because I was asked by one of my player what happens to his character when he get to ECL 21.
I have two non-standard characters in my campaign that ...
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Level up with Humanoid
Can a Player Character, say a 1st Elf Fighter, pick the Humanoid as their next Level, and become Elf/1st Fighter/1st Humanoid?
Also say you are a 20th Dwarf Cleric and you would rather not become Epic ...
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When are advancements gained?
When you complete a Drive, you gain an Advancement; you have two Drives and each can be completed once per session. As far as I can tell, an Advancement is an immediate improvement to your ...
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How does Anarchomancer handle a high Leadership score?
In Dragon Magazine #315, a prestige class called
Anarchomancer
was introduced.. It comes with a class feature called "Ritual of the Dark Infiltrator", which is described thusly:
Ritual of ...
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Lost Mines/Icespire Peak Combo Campaign Milestone/XP Hybrid, Does this look resonable?
I'm setting up to run Lost Mines and Icespire Peak at the same time. I wanted to use milestones instead of XP but I didn't want to feel like progress only happened at certain times so I assigned each ...
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What story points make suitable level-up milestones in Lost Mine of Phandelver?
I'm running the Lost Mine of Phandelver module with my players, and I've been using monster and reward XP as the book says so far. I have 5 players and they're all level 2 and have just cleared the ...
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Do the books offer any guidance for PCs who stray from the WBL curve?
Rust monsters are iconic. Nightwalkers less so. But they can both destroy PCs' expensive magic items, placing the party far behind the wealth-by-level (WBL) curve. I might expect that, to compensate, ...
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Can a Magic Jar-possessed body level up?
I was looking over the Magic Jar spell, and there are lots of ways to simulacrum and cheese and clone shenanigans. But I haven't seen this question yet and I was wondering...
Simulacrums specifically &...
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