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DrWaites	Plague too Deadly?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 2020 Jan 14 10 7:45 AM Necromancer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None I'm prepping to begin running this in a couple of weeks. On first reading, the Gray Death sounds really, really nasty. Basically, at 1st level characters - in the first combat encounter - are exposed to a disease that has a 50/50 chance of killing them. I don't like those odds for starting out a campaign. Has anyone run this? Did anyone feel it necessary to modify the 1 Con per hour loss (which is automatic death for any 1st level character in 10-16 hours)? Doc
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balrog62		#1	[-]
Posts: 284 Jan 21 10 8:17 AM Ghast Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I ripped parts out of Shades of Grey to fit in my homebrew campaign. The characters were either 6th or 7th level and I felt it was too costly. I instead changed it to 1d4 Con/day which worked out a lot better. For lower level characters, I'd probably change it to 1Con/day.
Vladicu		#2	[-]
Posts: 526 Jan 22 10 8:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	DrWaites - agreed, mucho nasty! Though I haven't played or DM'd SofG, I read it very thoroughly and pondered it then for awhile longer. It's a good campaign arc. Whatever you do, IMO, as much as possible don't strip the fear of that gray death from the adventure. Fear should drive the action, and rather horridly, both regards the need to stop the plague and the need to not be stopped by it even as and especially as other work must be done. If you can preserve just a little of the cry, Plague!!! followed by cries of Bring out your dead!!! and then finally those of Look at all those f-ucking ghouls!!! as the adventure proceeds forward, anyway - I think your players are in for a real treat in macabre! Good luck! Last Edited By: Vladicu Jan 22 10 8:37 PM. Edited 2 times.

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