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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6825461" data-attributes="member: 6799649"><p>This post created a strange disconnect for me.</p><p></p><p>Would any DM really restrict NON-player characters to only 1st level? That even your 15th level PCs can only face 1st level opponents on the grounds that it wouldn't be fair to give anybody unearned levels? Unless they'd somehow survived a previous encounter with these PCs, and even then they would only get the XPs from their PC fight, because we can't give them free XPs from stuff they didn't do 'on camera'.</p><p></p><p>I've never even heard of this possibility; I just made it up now. And yet, this is the reasoning behind forcing replacement PCs to be 1st level no matter the level of the party.</p><p></p><p>If you accept the possibility that people in the game world exist even when the PCs aren't looking directly at them(!) and continue to live their lives and earn XPs even when 'off camera', then this also applies to the new guys, who weren't PCs when the party was being played for 15 levels. Now that the party need a replacement, those 'off camera' XPs don't just evaporate! The world doesn't consist solely of 1st level people, or people who are 1st level only while the party looks for a replacement and then revert to their usual levels when the party aren't recruiting.</p><p></p><p>It is an unnecessary absurdity to only have 1st level people available to recruit in a world full of people with varying degrees of experience, and it would be totally surreal to have a game world that only had 1st level people in it apart from the PCs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 6825461, member: 6799649"] This post created a strange disconnect for me. Would any DM really restrict NON-player characters to only 1st level? That even your 15th level PCs can only face 1st level opponents on the grounds that it wouldn't be fair to give anybody unearned levels? Unless they'd somehow survived a previous encounter with these PCs, and even then they would only get the XPs from their PC fight, because we can't give them free XPs from stuff they didn't do 'on camera'. I've never even heard of this possibility; I just made it up now. And yet, this is the reasoning behind forcing replacement PCs to be 1st level no matter the level of the party. If you accept the possibility that people in the game world exist even when the PCs aren't looking directly at them(!) and continue to live their lives and earn XPs even when 'off camera', then this also applies to the new guys, who weren't PCs when the party was being played for 15 levels. Now that the party need a replacement, those 'off camera' XPs don't just evaporate! The world doesn't consist solely of 1st level people, or people who are 1st level only while the party looks for a replacement and then revert to their usual levels when the party aren't recruiting. It is an unnecessary absurdity to only have 1st level people available to recruit in a world full of people with varying degrees of experience, and it would be totally surreal to have a game world that only had 1st level people in it apart from the PCs. [/QUOTE]
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