i wonder if it would help matters if instead of customising shit to players and threads (far too much to lay on mods) there was a fixed table of bonuses per CR level per char.
so eg a level 2 cr gets you [power X] or [thing X] multiplied by your number of chars at level 2 or above
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so eg a level 2 cr gets you [power X] or [thing X] multiplied by your number of chars at level 2 or above