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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6679121">Ancient creatures being insanely powerful and often multi-classes was common practice in editions past.  But they are rare for a variety of much more logical reasons, such as they're obsessed with hoarding knowledge.  They're paranoid their fellows will come to steal their power, so they kill them first.  It's not a far-fetched idea in fantasy that the prime reason that zillion-year-old creatures are rare is because they tend to go to war with each other periodically.  That and the knowledge to become a lich is fairly hard to gather and even harder to put into practice.I DO realize how far you could level up with thousands of years of soloing the world, but there are much more reasonable reasons for why there aren't hundreds of dragon-god-lords or at least why they're not here.  The thing is: monsters adventuring they face the same problems as players, the world fights back.  Eventually another dragon shows up, or enough kobols gang up on the thing or the humanoids of the world band together or whatever.  Those are all great reasons for why incredibly powerful creatures aren't omni-present.Vampires are humanoids, so I think you're stretching if you're going to claim that being an intelligent undead somehow prevents you from furthering your skills.  Again: the assumption that ancient creatures are absurdly powerful from years of studying is not uncommon both throughout previous editions of D&D and fantasy in general.</blockquote>

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