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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BronzeDragon" data-source="post: 4442322" data-attributes="member: 873">I do have a problem with the creation of NPCs, mainly because I DM all the time, but I still think the rules should be consistent.To me the players are special not because they are different from the rest of the world, but because they are the focus of the game. A 20th level Paladin protecting X-town from an invasion by an Orc horde is as important as the player's 20th level Paladin doing the same thing. He won't get the same attention because he's not the focus (after all it is I who play him, not one of the players and I have to play loads of characters).And yes, spellcasters usually are the issue, and that's why I mentioned that I moved to a very low-magic system. I don't even allow players to take a look at the Scholar class, much less play one. And it really helps a lot.I have played GURPS and DM'ed it. I found GURPS fantasy to be absolutely clumsy and immersion-killing, but I grant that GURPS is a marvelous system for modern games. My players greatly enjoyed my GURPS World War 2 campaign.And I don't really worry about these things. I just assume that if a dragon breathes on a group of villagers, it does the same average damage it would do to a group of PCs. I see no reason to make up excuses to justify a greater (or lesser) effect of a creature's abilities on a PC.</blockquote>