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So the effects are seperate?

I remember a long time ago, you could play a 0 level character. Don't really remember much about them. Think it was originally in Dragon Magazine, then TSR actually put 0 level characters in one of thier books. Possibly Unearthed Arcana, but been too long.

Don't really remember much about it, other than the whole concept was to basically roleplay a character into its particular role. In other words, give players the opportunity to actually start a character at a point where they had no roles at all. An example 0 level magic spell would be a real short lived fairy fire that had no power at all, other than to hope the creature your battling would be so suprised they'd run away or something.

Another sample "cantrip" I think they called the 0 level spells, was candle light The same as normal light, only it gave out enough light to equal a single candle.

Pretty sure the the whole 0 level concept was mostly to give new players a feel for the game after they spend half the session just rolling up thier first toon.

Definately not a bad concept, but it could be done easily as a long Dragon Magazine article, or maybe a dozen pages (at most), in a hard cover book.

I did make an adventure once with 0 level toons. Was a very short adventure.

Basically the premise was the players had to help some townpeople rid thier graveyard of something nasty in thier graveyard. Which actually turned out to be a lone goblin, living in an abandoned crypt. The goblin was actually more afraid of the townpeople. At night, he would make various spooky noises whenever he thought someone was coming near the graveyard.

The players managed to find the scared goblin a more appropriate cave farther away from town. Of course, the townpeople were very glad to have a safe graveyard, and the players never did tell them exactly what caused the unusual noises.