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<blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 8221442" data-attributes="member: 6895991">Oh, but who is organizing the war of an empire vs the PCs? Surely the emperor was not unprotected, and part of the resources, at least those like the CR 20 bodyguards, court wizard, high priest etc. have either surrendered or gone down with the emperor in trying to defend him.Also this asumes that leveld/classed&nbsp; folks is common, which is not the precndition in every campaign. If you take 2e guidelines for class and level distribution which is a good one, since it is halfway between &quot;every soldier is at least level 3 and his general level 9 plus the village cleric has tobe level 9 at least etc.&quot; and &quot;The pcs are the only lonely heroes with something like levels&quot; then it goes like :About 1 in 100 is a paladin (derived from the standard creation method back then which made it hard to roll the min stats for that class but still a reasonable idea, since not everyone and his mother is a holy man)With levels it goes like (dunno if iam exact here) : A city of 50000 is guaranteed to have a 9th level clericBut also: The high priest of a temple does not need to be the cleric with most levels, but often is the most faithful, (a quite stunning and diverse approach for that time)For the ruler it says: if you want to make a ruler (which is a commoner wit h1d6 hp) a bit tougher, you can give him an extra hd, so he is not easily killled by a lucky dagger attack.Fascinating isn't it? It also works - even if transponded to 5e wit hsome number crunching. And those ppl who love their PCs having all freedoms should eventualy have some chance to kill (and eventually replace) an emperor, at least at level 20 don't you think?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Coroc, post: 8221442, member: 6895991"] Oh, but who is organizing the war of an empire vs the PCs? Surely the emperor was not unprotected, and part of the resources, at least those like the CR 20 bodyguards, court wizard, high priest etc. have either surrendered or gone down with the emperor in trying to defend him. Also this asumes that leveld/classed folks is common, which is not the precndition in every campaign. If you take 2e guidelines for class and level distribution which is a good one, since it is halfway between "every soldier is at least level 3 and his general level 9 plus the village cleric has tobe level 9 at least etc." and "The pcs are the only lonely heroes with something like levels" then it goes like : About 1 in 100 is a paladin (derived from the standard creation method back then which made it hard to roll the min stats for that class but still a reasonable idea, since not everyone and his mother is a holy man) With levels it goes like (dunno if iam exact here) : A city of 50000 is guaranteed to have a 9th level cleric But also: The high priest of a temple does not need to be the cleric with most levels, but often is the most faithful, (a quite stunning and diverse approach for that time) For the ruler it says: if you want to make a ruler (which is a commoner wit h1d6 hp) a bit tougher, you can give him an extra hd, so he is not easily killled by a lucky dagger attack. Fascinating isn't it? It also works - even if transponded to 5e wit hsome number crunching. And those ppl who love their PCs having all freedoms should eventualy have some chance to kill (and eventually replace) an emperor, at least at level 20 don't you think? [/QUOTE]

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