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Message: <blockquote data-quote="feartheminotaur" data-source="post: 6845818" data-attributes="member: 6801354">I always thought of the world in terms of levels, just like the PCs.  The King is 20th level and the poor blacksmith's boy is 1st.  Thing is, the levels are in classes not in the PHB.  By this I don't mean literal classes with features and such, because I'm lazy and stating that would be a PITA.  But classes in rough proportion to the PCs.   So, the King is a 20th level Noble, the blacksmith's boy is a 1st level Apprentice.  The King has a +6 proficiency bonus and 20 stats and gained levels by doing kingly stuff, not killing goblins with a crossbow.  The apprentice and his lowly single hit die gains XP by working on his craft, not by delving some lost tomb.  That sort of psuedo-equalizing means the King is more powerful than PCs, just not at what the PCs do, and the blacksmith's boy is nowhere near the PCs league, but has skills that they don't for an adventure path the PCs don't care about.Example: King John II, Lvl18, +6 prof, +5 Cha, +3 Wis, +3 Int.  Magic Crown - Immune to the charmed or frightened condidtion.  Personality Stuff.  -> That's all I need to roll any interaction w/ PCsETA: An example</blockquote>