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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 1934003" data-attributes="member: 607">Well, Keith "Hellcow" Baker often says that NPC (the tower wizard) don't use the same system of advancement as the PCs. A graying veteran human soldier may fight a war for 20 years and still be just a Warrior 2.Why does it take the tower wizard 20 years to accomplish something an adventuing wizard can do in 4 years? Simple: the adventuring wizard is putting his bacon on the line and facing certain death on a daily basis. The tower wizard pores over old books and ponders about the mating rituals of unseen servants for months at a time.And the tower wizard porbably was an adventurer in his youth, and advanced quite rapidly, but found that his death wish wasn't as strong as it used to be, and built a tower as soon as he achieved Name Level (9th?). From then on it slows down until he advances a level once every year.</blockquote>