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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6437762" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya. I think it all depends on how rare a 20th level character is in your campaign. Using the old 2.5e "Players Option: High Level Campaigns" book as a guideline, it sets an 18th level character per 1 million people. Figure...a 20th level character per 2 million people and with Forgotten Realms total 'world' population (counrties) sitting at around...what, 40 million?), that gives you 20 characters of 20th level. I don't see that as a problem. However, if you have 20th level being 'common' for most movers and shakers of the world (re: top NPC's, guild leaders, army generals, lords/ladies, etc)...then yeah, probably overpowered.  It's the old "high level NPC asks you to risk almost certain death...for something they could do by themselves over their lunch break" problem. I don't know about other people's campaigns, but in mine, high level characters do use their abilities to solve problems; be those problems "a god is trying to destroy reality", or "a small group of bandits are harassing nearby farmers on their way to market". A 20th level character should be the equivalent of a modern day billionaire genius with a small army (including a tactical nuke or two) at his disposal....with diplomatic immunity to ALL countries. Put five of those guys on a task and it will pretty much get done. Multiplie that 5-man team by too many and you have the World of Synnibarr. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />^_^Paul L. MingPS: I like Synnibarr, by the way. I've ran it multiple times, for 'mini-campaigns'. A very fun game...if you go into it with the right attitude (which includes the ability to read a description of, say, a normal Shark and discover that all sharks have the natural ability to shapechange into human form...just blink in astonishment once or twice, sigh deeply, smile, and say Huh, yup. Makes perfect sense. What's the problem?).</blockquote>

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