Sunday, September 11, 2011

canonical BX to-do list: dwarf

Level 1
Pal around with up to 39 fellow first level dwarves
Join a Basic NPC party
Serves as Retainer to a PC
Serve as a mercenary


Level 2
Join a Basic NPC party
Serves as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level


Level 3
Join a Basic NPC party
Serves as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level

Lead up to 40 first level dwarves
Serve as Retainer to Fighter level 7 to 10


Levels 4 to 6
Serves as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead up to 40 first level dwarves
Serve as Retainer to Fighter level 7 to 10

Levels 7 and 8
Join an Expert NPC party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level

Levels 9 to 12
Lead up to 40 first level dwarves

Join an Expert NPC party
Serves as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Found a dwarf clan stronghold

3 comments:

  1. Ding dang formatting.

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  2. Awesome. I'm loving this "to-do" series. They serve as good adventure inspiration. e.g What should my 5th level dwarf be doing today?

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  3. Me too, Folly. I love em for when you encounter a leveled NPC, it's now pretty easy to figure out who they are, what they are up to, what their goals/ambitions are. It makes it SUPER easy to make even random NPC encounters loop back into the game later in a meaningful way. "Last time we met this guy he was X, things have changed, and now he's a badass doing Y, so it's a good thing he owes you a favor from when you helped him out way back." To me, that's the biggest benefit - now it's real easy to go back through the roster of previously meaningful NPCs and easily figure out what happened next, where things moved, and in a way that actually can have a meaningful effect on the whole game setting. And I love that it's straight from the rules, just never ever been organized in this way. Who knew OD&D had "paths" all along? :)

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