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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3176608" data-attributes="member: 4910">Hit points, vaguely,  Oh, he's a veteran warrior.  That guy's tough as nails.  Soandso's got a glass jaw, etc.  It's not so much a measure of Widgets Expendable Before Death as it is a rough approximation of badassery.Spell levels, definitely.  Or more to the point, people with ranks in Spellcraft do.  People without any functional knowledge of the mechanics of magic tend to lump spells into broad categories similar to those found in Detect Magic: lesser magics are spell levels 0-3, 'average' magics are 4-6 and major magics are 7-9.  Anything into the epic range is the sort of thing that's so legendary that most people believe it wouldn't be possible for one person to do; make mountains fly, plunge entire nations into darkness, etc.  For folks in the know, however, spell level is a much more concrete thing.  To steal a book from Sep's page: valences.  Tiered ranks of magical complexity that one must be possessed of X mental flexibility in order to juggle all the components of, in order to bring the spell into effect.</blockquote>