I am in the process of re-developing the characters in the free intro adventure to Belynar called "Cleaning House" and I have run into a few problems. So far I have only developed two of the characters in the first book, Alahia (human Monk) and Gilgaron Gray (Human Fighter). I was under the assumption that these pre-gen characters were developed prior to the enhanced rules that came out a couple of years ago. The problem is that so far both of the characters I have developed would have gone over their DP limit of 100 DP's (1st level only) if I decided to keep all the skills and talents they already have. Alahia would have gone over like 5 points or so, but the fighter is way beyond the updated DP expenditure and he was developed using the old rules of which he would have had less DP's to spend. In just doing his normal skills I ran into a cost of 44 DP's. I still hadn't added the 2 ranks in Arcane Lore, the 2 ranks in PP development, and the 2 ranks for the guess spell. All together that would normally cost 24 DP's! But since he had 5 free skill ranks as a human I could give that I hadn't used yet and I could spend 4 points for the final rank and all would have been good with 2 DP's left over. Then I noticed he had "Instinctive Defense" which is a 30 point talent that fighters do not get for free. That may have had a different cost before but even at a 5 DP cost he still would have went over the limit in the new system, but as I said earlier I believe these characters were developed under the old system. OTOH Alahia at 2nd level seemed to have been underdeveloped as far as DP expenditure goes.
I was going to redevelop these characters and send them to ICE to use in the rehash of the Belynar starting adventures but now it looks like I am going to have to completely redevelop these characters. I'm not sure if that will be acceptable for ICE in the starting adventures for Belynar.
As a side note I will say that there were some bad choices in the skill development for 1st level on at least these first two characters. So I think re-development is in hand anyway.
Anyone else want to chime in on this?
ICE do you think you could still use these characters?
Bruce