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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 659020" data-attributes="member: 944">I find this a facinating discussion, even the falme'y bits of it.While I agree with reapersaurus that the world is a D&D variant that doesn't invalidate SHARKS assumptions. To the contrary I find what I read of Valorea a masterpiece of internal consistancy.I do have a question though, how is epic play feasible for someone like me who runs a humano-centric world. Getting an army of 10000 beastmen and a 1000 ogres is an impossibility in my world. While there are beastmen and ogres I doubt there are that many in the whole of the the continentAlso I noticed that in Valorea you can field an army of  thousands of 10th level and up characters. What kind of life do people lead that they could get 45000xp on a regular basis!This is dozens of and dozens of encounters at many different CR--- If life is that dangerous how would anyone live long enough to do anything?The most common assumptions (boy do I love that word) seem to be that a a year of life is between cr1-cr4 from what I piece together (Sean Reynolds, other homebrew sites) at that rate a tenth level charcter (not an adventurer mind you) would be in his 60's or 70's!If those assumptions don't apply how do you do XP?And a  last related question, what are civilians in your world like?Is the life faced by say a merchant on the frontier area dangerous enough that a typical merchant encountered is 3/5 exp/war or something like that.My understanding leads me to fell that Valorea is sort of like Texas, everything is bigger. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Its not so much that Valorea is a world set for Epic Adventuring, its thta the whole scale is different. An Adventure involving a pack of 5th level guys is like a anventure for 2nd level types in other gamesWhile most games are ending at 20th level, this is midlevel on SHARK world.Am I correct in this guess or is there something I am missing here.</blockquote>

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