Re: [DL] Lone Stars stuff(Mr Mcglothlin or anyone who feels they know)

[TobyAkers@aol.com]

I don't have the ranger book in front of me right now, but a charecter's level is the sum of all his/her classes.  Unless it specificly says that it only counts texas ranger levels towards ranks then add them all up.  This can get a bit silly if you consider the fact that a charecter could achieve 17 levels in something and then become level 1 ranger and be promoted to brigideer general... you my want to put a time constraint on how long it takes a char. to be promoted.  The Epic level HB also talks about taking prestiege classes above level 10, basicly find common abilities in lev 1-10 and assume they continue to progress after that.

In a message dated 8/13/02 1:34:31 PM US Mountain Standard Time, stone1kl@cmich.edu writes:


> I know this should have come up much sooner but I am a bit 
> daft about coming up with this stuff until it just kinda 
> smacks me in the face. Last night one of my posse members was 
> finally able to come up with enough stuff to meet the Rangers 
> prestige class ability. Between that and the completion of 
> Ghost Busters(which he and the posse did primarily for the 
> Rangers) I decided that if the posse would give him the time 
> he needed to go off to boot camp then he could become a 
> Texase Ranger. Anyway we were looking at ranks in lone stars 
> and he pointed something out to me, since the Rangers are a 
> prestige class and only go to 10th level how does one gain 
> higher ranks? After all at 10the level they are only a 2nd 
> lieutenant or something. My question is should I halve the 
> level rank, or should I extend the chart? If I lower the rank 
> that makes a Brigadier general(such as General King) at least 
> a 17th level character(7 for minimum requirements +10 for 
> Brigadier) and that seems pretty darn powerful and he could 
> be higher than that after taking more levels in Gunslinger or 
> scout or whatever. The third option is to add the characters 
> current level when they join thus representing the military 
> way of instantly promoting a person to officer based on there 
> experience such as modern military. Well there you have it I 
> would like to know your thoughts on it Christopher, Shane, 
> Mom, whoever. Thanks in advance :).
>
> Kevin "the d20 Ranger" Stoner