gandalf had a thing for hobbits, right? and all the dwarves seemed convinced he was a skilled burglar. but i always read them as thinking of him as something like a mascot. :)
yeah, so basically reading this adventure made me think about how weird level-based systems are. :) but it seems adequately plausible, to me, to have a years-long epic with lots of between-adventure downtime that spans the same level range, and that would make it easier for me to suspend disbelief. maybe part of my problem is d&d having done away with level training; now you just magically *pop* up to the next level as soon as you hit the x.p. total. :)
(dragon-hoard financing makes sense; they even talk about how fanatically devoted to the cause the dragons are. but that still doesn't quite explain who made all those weapons... is there a hobgoblin city somewhere filled with hobgoblin master weaponsmiths? i guess there must be.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2007-11-28 10:59 pm (UTC)yeah, so basically reading this adventure made me think about how weird level-based systems are. :) but it seems adequately plausible, to me, to have a years-long epic with lots of between-adventure downtime that spans the same level range, and that would make it easier for me to suspend disbelief. maybe part of my problem is d&d having done away with level training; now you just magically *pop* up to the next level as soon as you hit the x.p. total. :)
(dragon-hoard financing makes sense; they even talk about how fanatically devoted to the cause the dragons are. but that still doesn't quite explain who made all those weapons... is there a hobgoblin city somewhere filled with hobgoblin master weaponsmiths? i guess there must be.)