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<blockquote data-quote="rjs" data-source="post: 1919451" data-attributes="member: 16164">Disparate LevelsThe fact that Tobo is &quot;levels&quot; higher than Goblin and One-Eye can be easily explained by the fact that Tobo spent years learning from the Black Company wizards, and then years longer in the Land of Unknown Shadows learning from the best people there (Lady included). Now this said, I see Tobo as an exceptional situation, an outlier if you will. He was a being prophecized to come into being, first by Hong Tray and later by the people of Taglios. So, unless you plan to have some device like this in your games, I don't see this as much of an issue.However, there may be instances where the PCs might have someone like the Taken along for the ride, or some other figure of great power. Handling this is artful side of GMing (not to give a cop-out answer). If the PCs are 10th level, and they have a 50th-level wizard in their party, yes, this requires a lot of careful planning, but in most cases, I would recommend such characters to be used &quot;off-stage,&quot; busy with other circumstances suited to their powers, or as plot devices. Would I suggest the Taken (or someone of equivalent or nigh equivalent power) to work alongside the party? Absolutely not. Or at least, not for very long.The rules in the book handle games for all levels, but, from my experience, the best Black Company games are where the characters, being at low or mid level, do expectional things, despite the fact that they do not compare (at least in regard to power) to the might of the great evils in the world.(Gosh, I love Mondays <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rjs, post: 1919451, member: 16164"] [b]Disparate Levels[/b] The fact that Tobo is "levels" higher than Goblin and One-Eye can be easily explained by the fact that Tobo spent years learning from the Black Company wizards, and then years longer in the Land of Unknown Shadows learning from the best people there (Lady included). Now this said, I see Tobo as an exceptional situation, an outlier if you will. He was a being prophecized to come into being, first by Hong Tray and later by the people of Taglios. So, unless you plan to have some device like this in your games, I don't see this as much of an issue. However, there may be instances where the PCs might have someone like the Taken along for the ride, or some other figure of great power. Handling this is artful side of GMing (not to give a cop-out answer). If the PCs are 10th level, and they have a 50th-level wizard in their party, yes, this requires a lot of careful planning, but in most cases, I would recommend such characters to be used "off-stage," busy with other circumstances suited to their powers, or as plot devices. Would I suggest the Taken (or someone of equivalent or nigh equivalent power) to work alongside the party? Absolutely not. Or at least, not for very long. The rules in the book handle games for all levels, but, from my experience, the best Black Company games are where the characters, being at low or mid level, do expectional things, despite the fact that they do not compare (at least in regard to power) to the might of the great evils in the world. (Gosh, I love Mondays ;)) [/QUOTE]

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