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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitoy" data-source="post: 2280011" data-attributes="member: 1819">I see two pretty good reasons for leaders of nations to be high level.1.  Extraordinary people tend to gravitate to positions of power.  This happens in literature, the movies and in real life.  I don't know about you but King Conan, the Emperor from Star Wars and Genghis Khan would all be high teen to epic level characters in my campaign and in most other campaigns as well.2.  If you're planning for your campaign to go into epic levels, leaders of nations had better be high to epic level.  Otherwise, they will quickly be overthrown by the epic level threats and/or NPCs you intend to use to challenge your players.  Heck, if leaders of nations are relatively low level, what's to keep the PCs from conquering nations and eventually ruling the world?In an epic/high level game, the answer is not high to epic level servants or advisors for relatively low level monarchs.  Eventually, one of those epic level "servants" will either take over the nation or turn the monarch into a puppet.</blockquote>