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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 159636" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Role-Playing Personal Goals/Self-Perceptions as Opposed to Arbitrary Game Mechanics ____________________________________________________What does this mean? Well, it means that characters, *in-game* aren't really aware of "what level they are". They are aware of relative power levels, but only in a general sense. For example,Some 20th level Fighters are Generals in command of armies. They have the skills necessary; they have the history of military experience; they have the personal desire to be a General in command of armies.Using this example, a different 20th level Fighter who isn't in the military, and has spent all of his time as a free-booting adventurer, with little personal interest in leading armies, won't be a General. Even if he woke up one day and decided he wanted to be a General, the point is, his experience, vast as it is, is colored differently than the General's. The military wouldn't put this yahoo in command of armies in his wildest dreams. Reason being, "levels" are not equal in absolute values. They are individualized, each and every time. They represent general skill energy, so to speak, as opposed to necessary titles and societal functions. Does all of that make sense?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If it does, then you can see how there can be 20th level characters who are elite warriors and snipers serving in the city's Watch, or possibly a rugged, hardened Detective who has been running the dark streets of the city for twenty years. Standing under an eave dripping from rain, with the evening mist rolling in, the veteran Detective lights his cigarette slowly, as he readies himself to go out into the night.That veteran Detective is a criminal's, or psychotic adventurer's worst nightmare.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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