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Topic: Burned Out
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LuciusT
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posted September 18, 2002 07:52 AM
Here's a
problem that has cropped up in our campaign. One of the
characters, a male gleeman, took a level of wilder because the
player thought it would be an interesting development to
explore. Shortly afterward, the player regreted the decision.
We discussed it and decided that we didn't want to "reset"
things and make that choice not happen, but the player didn't
want to deal with being a male channeler either. So, we
decided to have the character burn himself out.
The
deed is now done and the player is once again basically happy
with the character.
However, I keep look at the
character sheet and wondering if it's really fair. The
character essentially "lost" one level. OK, he has a better
Will save that he would have had, but otherwise...
I'm
not sure if something should be done to compensate the
character for the loss of all his Wilder special abilities or
not.
Opinions?
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theSaj
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posted September 18, 2002 08:15 AM
In this
case, since he took the level willingly I'd say no...it's part
of his experience. (Perhaps negative experience,
etc.)
Now, I don't know how you role-played him burning
out or if you just said it. If you didn't role-play I'd
suggest having had an Aes Sedai "gentle" him and drop him a
pouchful of marks. Thus you've compensated him in some
fashion...but experience gained is experience
gained.
Heck, many wilder levels you don't get anything
but a +1 added to reflex bonus. *shrug* Should every Wilder
expect compensation for the fact that in the first 5 levels
only "2" provide any real
advancement.
-------------------- "To Die is to Live
No More!"
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wierdbob
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posted September 18, 2002 02:04 PM
If he gets
burn't out or gentled then he won't have a very long life
expectancy, not that he'll die from it but he'll become
verrrry depressed and
suicidal.
-------------------- Wierdbob Sensei of
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Grayswandir_Blade Member Member
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posted September 18, 2002 06:46 PM
Not
necessarily, WB...there are no examples (that I know of) from
the novels of burned-out channelers that have just barely
touched the OP, but have not gotten addicted. If the character
only took one level, who's to say he would desperately miss
that feeling of power? Compare it to something like
nicotine--true, you get addicted from the first puff
(supposedly), but not until you get deeper into the habit do
you really become affected by a loss of
nicotine.
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wierdbob
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posted September 19, 2002 03:04 AM
Well, the
ability to channel has been a part of the character all his
adult life so even though he has only just become consciously
aware of his ability to channel it has been a part of him for
a long time but he just wont have realized it.
Also I
think it would be interesting to play a manic depressive
gleeman, I guess he'd only play the saddest songs and tell the
most woeful tales.
At the end of the day this is just
the way I'd do things at the moment if a character in my game
did something similar, if someone posts a different idea I
like better then I'd use that instead ![[Wink]](Wizards_Com Boards Burned Out Wilder_fichiers/wink.gif)
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LuciusT
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posted September 19, 2002 06:12 AM
quote:
Originally posted by wierdbob: Well, the
ability to channel has been a part of the character all his
adult life so even though he has only just become
consciously aware of his ability to channel it has been a
part of him for a long time but he just wont have realized
it.
Actually, given this particular characters age, he
really had only just become able to channel. We even when
through the whole "channeling reaction" bit. In fact he was
only just coming out of that when he burned out.
He
does still have depressive fits but he's generally not
sucidial. He's one of the lucky ones who find something else
to fill the void in their lives.
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Grayswandir_Blade Member Member
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posted September 19, 2002 10:56 AM
quote:
Originally posted by wierdbob: Also I
think it would be interesting to play a manic depressive
gleeman, I guess he'd only play the saddest songs and tell
the most woeful tales.
*shudders* Try reading The Seven Songs of
Merlin. God, after reading that, I hate depressing
jesters... ![[Cthulhu]](Wizards_Com Boards Burned Out Wilder_fichiers/cthulhu_green.gif)
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