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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1487141" data-attributes="member: 633">Can't do it. The most stupid and weak of the kobolds could have any CR up to infinite, just by having enough character levels. And he can get those levels, because you can gain experience even by defeating stuff below your CR...&nbsp;&nbsp;So here's how you get to level 50: get as high level as you can without driving high-CR opponents to extinction. Then train low-CR creatures by getting them to defeat their peers, until their CR is high enough that you gain experience from defeating them. Then defeat them. Repeat. It's not a fast method, though. Eventually, you'll have to train creatures to get their CR high enough to give experience to the creatures you're training for yourself to defeat... it's the kind of nefarious scheme some immortal fiend could devise to gain power. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp;&nbsp;Hey, I just realized that this explains perfectly the reason for which villains always leave young heroes alive, instead of killing them while they're still weak! They hope to let their CR go up!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 1487141, member: 633"] Can't do it. The most stupid and weak of the kobolds could have any CR up to infinite, just by having enough character levels. And he [i]can[/i] get those levels, because you can gain experience even by defeating stuff below your CR... So here's how you get to level 50: get as high level as you can without driving high-CR opponents to extinction. Then train low-CR creatures by getting them to defeat their peers, until their CR is high enough that you gain experience from defeating them. Then defeat them. Repeat. It's not a [i]fast[/i] method, though. Eventually, you'll have to train creatures to get their CR high enough to give experience to the creatures you're training for yourself to defeat... it's the kind of nefarious scheme some immortal fiend could devise to gain power. :D Hey, I just realized that this explains perfectly the reason for which villains always leave young heroes alive, instead of killing them while they're still weak! They hope to let their CR go up! [/QUOTE]

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