Kae'Yoss
First Post
Dr_Rictus said:
You're not actually serious, right?
I'd ask you to either contribute to the discussion, or don't. Don't invent ridiculous straw man arguments like this. It's a waste of everybody's time.
And I ask you to either contribute to the discussion yourself, or don't. Don't just snap at people without producing something worthwile yourself.
And the idea about 1st level was just an extreme example. I did point out that it worked all the way.
And if you converted him, you _had_ to create the character in 2e, or there would be nothing to convert. It doesn't work only for 1st-level characters, but for all characters! When you convert, you belatedly get the 1 point to an ability score for every 4 levels.
So let's make a comparison:
You create a 3e-fighter from scratch. You put a 18 into STR. At 4th, 8th, and 12th level you put your additional point into STR, ending up with a Fighter12 with STR 21.
You have an old 2e fighter of 12th level. You also put a 18 into STR at the time of his creation, and had a little luck rolling 00 as exceptional STR. Now you convert him: His STR changes to 23 after the table in the conversion manual, and you also get another 3 points cause he's 12th level. You put them in STR and ent up with STR 26.
You'll have a serious advantage to the other fither there, since the hightest STR you usually can achieve at 12th-level (without custom races, without magic) would be 23 (half-orc with 18 put into STR, 3x STR increase). Doesn't sound right to me.