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<blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 2716241" data-attributes="member: 15999">My point is that you *can* generally say that it's a very small number that make it to level 20.&nbsp; Given the way the XP tables work, you need a few thousand easy fights or a few hundred moderate fights to reach level 20.&nbsp;&nbsp; And everybody you defeated had in turn defeated many other foes.&nbsp; Exact numbers?&nbsp; No. The best we can do is show order of magnitude and how various assumptions affect the total.&nbsp; But I think that's relevant and interesting.This is something that always bothered me about the DMG demographics, with their absurd proliferation of high-level NPCs; what quests did these NPCs have to do to get there?&nbsp; What are their stories?&nbsp; How many orcs tribes did they have to wipe out?&nbsp; What other foes did they defeat?&nbsp; How many NPCs died along the way?&nbsp; Where did they travel?And I think you can say with some certainty that reconciling the DMG demographics with the XP charts requires an immense amount of very stupid cannon fodder out there, or the odd assumption that most fights are non-lethal.&nbsp; (Non-lethal victories shouldn't always gain full XP either; if the drow assassins successfully flee from you and kill their target, then you've failed.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brother MacLaren, post: 2716241, member: 15999"] My point is that you *can* generally say that it's a very small number that make it to level 20. Given the way the XP tables work, you need a few thousand easy fights or a few hundred moderate fights to reach level 20. And everybody you defeated had in turn defeated many other foes. Exact numbers? No. The best we can do is show order of magnitude and [I]how[/I] various assumptions affect the total. But I think that's relevant and interesting. This is something that always bothered me about the DMG demographics, with their absurd proliferation of high-level NPCs; what quests did these NPCs have to do to get there? What are their stories? How many orcs tribes did they have to wipe out? What other foes did they defeat? How many NPCs died along the way? Where did they travel? And I think you can say with some certainty that reconciling the DMG demographics with the XP charts requires an immense amount of very stupid cannon fodder out there, or the odd assumption that most fights are non-lethal. (Non-lethal victories shouldn't always gain full XP either; if the drow assassins successfully flee from you and kill their target, then you've failed.) [/QUOTE]

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