Re: The _Flowfish_

>  > Yup, they are NPCs for us. One thing to keep in mind is that they are
>>  alternate reality versions of your PCs. Overall levels are around 6th (Our
>>  PCs are just hitting 11th) and I am sure that there are many variations.
>
>     Actually, that's pretty close.  We're in the 4th-6th level.  Given the
>game, our advancement is kinda slow, but really nobody notices because a)
>the story is really good and b) we don't have Elminster showing up every few
>turns to pimpslap us around and deride us for being such wusses.  And
>really, the action is nice and tight, and its extremely rare we run out of
>stuff like spells in combat.  It's low-level gaming at its best, IMO :D

Actually, the levels are 1-6 :)

And I thought Elrohir pimped slapped you enough:)

But I'm glad you enjoy it, this is exactly what I'm going for, with
the addendum that I think a 'realistic' campaign is one where PCs and
NPCs of all levels interact together.

Also, though the designers seemed to think SJ encouraged higher level
I feel it encourages lower level play.  The ship provides low level
PCs with more power than a typical wandering adventuring band, but
not much more.

One thing is most bad guys are generally lower levels, with high
level leaders, though I haven't made many changes to the published
stats.  The only obvious exception I can think of is scro
spellcasters, Their warpriests are not all 5/5 Mage/priests but range
from 3/3 upto 9/9.  1/1 and 2/2 warpriests exist, but only on the
scro homeworld and major colonies, where they are trained in the scro
temples.



>     There are few possessions owned by Raken that are remarkable.  His
>scimitar is quite magical, able to create a hypnotic pattern that can
>disable his opponents with ease.

I thought you'd forgotten that:)
--
"...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?!"
"As he has ever judged," said Aragorn "Good and evil have not changed
since yesteryear..."
J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers_

Paul Westermeyer,  pwestermeyer@????????.??.com