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The 'setup':

So last night at PaizoCon I was struggling hard at a table for the new 'Bid for Alabastrine'.

A combination of migraine, plus a whole bunch of triggers and playing a character I hadn't played in a while didn't help.

Fortunately, the GM was awesome and a couple of our players... well...

Hopefully that one poor, poor, poor Mister Explodeypants will get better in a next life.

But I digress.

When I got back to my room and was unpacking my bags I pulled out my character folding file to try and get ready for any pickup games on Saturday afternoon when I discovered...

...that the character sheet I had been playing from and was so incredibly frustrated from hadn't been either leveled *or* geared up for a level.

Has anyone else had a similar experience, this ex post facto realization that they had subconsciously 'self-nerfed' themselves for a play session?


Our party rogue just realized this past week that he hadn't fully leveled up his character in one or two levels...his attack bonuses were two lower than what they should have been, his saves were one or two lower across the board, and he was missing a sneak attack die. So it's definitely not just you. :)


I had a similar frustrating experience a while ago as a GM.

Another GM and myself had been trading back and forth running two different adventure paths for our group. After several sessions of his campaign, we switched back to my campaign (it had been a month or two). I thought I had their characters in a folder, but when I searched for them, I only found one that was recent. For the others I could only find older versions that were not their most recent sheets. When I could not find their characters, I drove back to my house, (about 20min each way) searched all over, but finally gave up and drove back to the game. I apologized profusely for losing their characters, and it was finally decided that we would use the old sheets as a basis, and try to level the characters up the best we could remember.

At is at that point, which was probably a good two hours after we should have started, that the players finally realized that these sheets were indeed their most recent versions, and that they had just been really slack about updating them. I'm not talking about just forgetting to update the "Character Level" number, but saves, BAB, all kinds of stuff. As annoying as the whole thing was, it was made worse by the fact that the previous sessions in my campaign had been encounters with a dragon, and I had made many efforts to get them to update their characters to mid level play. They leveled up, shopped for magic items, spent a lot of time planning, etc. The players had ample opportunity to get their characters in order, one was the other GM, the other a rules lawyer, and they both had ~30 years of D&D experience, so it wasn't like they were incapable.

In the end, BOTH campaigns fizzled out shortly after, and for the most part everyone went their separate ways. I haven't played or GM'd in a long time. I do miss it, and I hope to someday finish Carrion Crown and Jade Regent.


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A little off topic, but have you considered joining a play by post game here? They are, IMO, an excellent way to play. A lot slower than a normal game, but there's a lot of potential for more pure roleplaying since people tend to get into character easier via text.

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Wei Ji the Learner wrote:

Fortunately, the GM was awesome and a couple of our players... well...

Hopefully that one poor, poor, poor Mister Explodeypants will get better in a next life.

Hey, when you get one of the writers to get out of bed and come down to see for themselves how you guys break the scenario, you know you're doing alright.


I have a player notorious for not updating his character sheets. He's been as much as 2 levels behind before and no one knew it.

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Nope, never done this.

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