I notice this with new players and I've been thinking about ways to handle it. Some new players might venture into a place like viridale forest at level 3, which for veteran players you know is near suicide.
Conversely, what if a player at level 3 wandered into the Necropolis?
Advising players of this from OOC means seems like metagaming, even quirky. An in character method of simply telling someone where to go and where not to go seems clunky. The campaign handled this for instance by not revealing areas on the map until you've progress to the point where you would be high enough level to handle that area anyway.
Now this might bring the retort -- "But Saulus, what if we want to go to that area anyway, and maybe party with higher levels". Well that's a valid point, I don't want to restrict people from exploring, but at the same time I don't want someone to have a bad experience walking into a high level area and getting ganked badly.
So I want to leave this up to discussion, do people think this is a real problem or should it be ignored? Is there a simple way of solving this without going above and beyond in terms of drastic changes?
Conversely, what if a player at level 3 wandered into the Necropolis?
Advising players of this from OOC means seems like metagaming, even quirky. An in character method of simply telling someone where to go and where not to go seems clunky. The campaign handled this for instance by not revealing areas on the map until you've progress to the point where you would be high enough level to handle that area anyway.
Now this might bring the retort -- "But Saulus, what if we want to go to that area anyway, and maybe party with higher levels". Well that's a valid point, I don't want to restrict people from exploring, but at the same time I don't want someone to have a bad experience walking into a high level area and getting ganked badly.
So I want to leave this up to discussion, do people think this is a real problem or should it be ignored? Is there a simple way of solving this without going above and beyond in terms of drastic changes?
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