• 1 Post
  • 1.21K Comments
Joined 4 months ago
cake
Cake day: July 8th, 2025

help-circle




  • People who had skills like that retain them pretty well. Doing the shift of attributes from physical to mental makes sense and would have the kind of effect you are going for. Plus you could drop his HP to something like what he would get if he rolled a 2 every level (20+attribute+feats at level 10) so he wouldn’t be significantly more durable.

    Keep in mind that physically active people tend to stay physically active so unless you give him an injury, became sedentary for some reason, or is really getting on in years he would be expected to be as capable as he was when he stopped adventuring in the DnD setting.

    That said, it would probabky be better to have him the same level or lower as he ‘rediscovers’ his fighting prowess, possibly leveling up quickly compared to the players so he doesn’t overshadow them right away. Even support actions can feel like they are overshadowing character abilities.

    Or you could just use the Veteran NPC statblock and give them a few of the abilities from your list instead of using character creation rules.












  • There were several instances where the only thing in the sidebar is the community rules only, no instance rules. At least one instance had rules in post that I don’t think was even stickied in their main instance community or something stupid like that.

    I don’t bother reading the rules, because in the vast majority of cases they are vague enough to be uninformative (be nice!) or are so ridiculous that I’d rather just catch a ban than actively read every single rule everywhere to avoid tripping over one stupid community/instance specific rule. The only bans I’ve received across multiple accounts is either due to being a complete asshole (deserved), arguing with a stupid mod, or being banned for something the mod made up in their head to justify banning anyone who down voted a single post in one of their shitty AI slop communities.