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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3174354" data-attributes="member: 11760">This is true. For the purposes of this discussion, I can only go off the RAW, since every campaign is different, and trying to tell someone what the demographics should be like in their game is a fool's errand. (I wouldn't use Shark's demographics, for instance, but he's well thought-of here and I suspect he has plenty of people who use his system.)In the RAW, as pointed out up-thread, you will have NPCs in larger communities who are much closer in level to the titular level 15 adventurers. They probably won't be corporals in the city guard, pulling drunk-and-disorderly duty on the night shift. But even those not affiliated with the local government are certainly in contact with the powers that be, and when that dragonne lands in the square on Market Day or dopplegangers take over the Blacksmiths Guild or level 15th adventurers start tearing up the town, they'll be called in as soon as word of the threat reaches those with the ability to call out the "big guns."If you were the king and there was a group of thugs capable of killing a dragon, would you spend energy finding out who these folks are, what they look like and every other bit of available information? I suspect you would and that you'd make this information available to your agents so that, if nothing else, you could monitor what said thugs are up to. (They could be planning on coming after the throne one day, after all.)But yes, if they wanted to, the adventurers could disguise themselves. I don't recall that being part of the originally posited scenario, but yes, it's certainly possible and almost certainly successful, unless they're, say, shaking down Elminster's nephew's tavern or something.You're arguing against a point I didn't make: Of course, if that's all that's available in a community, that's all that they're going to see.My argument is with the notion that nowhere in the world will they encounter anyone higher level representing the authorities.</blockquote>

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