I find the lack of gear disturbing
Civil Abilities
We need more points. At least one more at character creation, either that or bring it back to one at level 3, then every 3/4 level. As it is right now, a rogue can either be better at sneaking than anyone else or be a thief but not both before level 4. It's a bit too late if you ask me.
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Regarding experience when leaving fort joy, like a lot of people, I feel like I need to wipe every magister in the castle to be confortable coming into the swamps. Some ways of escaping definitely net you less experience and I'm afraid some new players might feel thrown into the fray too soon. The worse part is that optionnal quests seem... well mandatory.
Maybe if you escape fort joy you should get a huge exp boost. But all fight in fort joy if you return are now 0 exp. That way you get a huge boost when escaping fort joy but don't need to trail back into fort joy because the swamp is too hard and you also would not go back for exp farming. if people do go back it's for fun but they won't become overpowered since they get almost no exp.
