Changing the duergar ECL?

Endugu · #1 (**permalink**) 12-15-2005, 02:54 PM

Title sums it up pretty much: Does anyone know of a mod that lowers the duergar' ECL to 1?

Id like to include one of those grey guys in a group for once, but the ECL has yet kept me from doing so.
Somehow, I cant see how their abilities (+4 to hide, immunity to paralysis and invisibility 1/day) are supposed to justify two additional character levels, especially in comparison to the other ECL +2 race, the drow.
Even Wizards of the Coast realised this and reduced the duergar ECL to +1, when they upgraded D&D from 3.0 to 3.5.

So...does anyone know how to change this? Maybe through a mod (I remember a mod that added some subraces, so it is possible to change them), or something similar...or maybe I have to mod the game myself and someone can point me to a appropriate site...

btw, are there any good IWD2-modding sites out there? I havent been able to find any besides those listed in the sticky thread on the top of this forum (weidu etc).

krunchyfrogg · #2 (**permalink**) 12-15-2005, 04:02 PM

1) I don't know how to change it. There are a lot of things WotC realized were mistakes and changed in 3.5, but this game is 3.0 (I still want Bard to be the favored class of Gnomes). I suppose you could add some XP with Dalekeeper, but that really won't do the trick the proper way.

2) Sorcerers.net has some cool mods.

mr_sir · #3 (**permalink**) 12-15-2005, 08:23 PM

use dale keeper 2 to increase them by one level then they will only be 1 level behind

Endugu · #4 (**permalink**) 12-17-2005, 03:03 PM

Thanks for the replies so far!

Yeah, thought about using DaleKeeper2, too and it seems to be my best option yet.
I just wish thered be a simple and more "lasting" method, than having to edit every single Duergar char.

Checked the sorcerer's place, too and some of those mods are neat, though most of them and dont really care for.