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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6472733" data-attributes="member: 177">Yep.  But since the real world is basically like playing E6, the threats are also capped.  It is not so for most RPGs. Barring a setting conceit to the contrary, anything PCs can do, the NPCs should also be able to do.  If the PCs are not special in some way, then the NPCs should die at roughly the same rate the PCs do. Do you run a game so lethal that PCs rarely survive over 5th level?  If not, that's where you're effectively sweeping the issue under the rug - allowing the PCs to survive, but assuming most of the NPCs do not.Yes.  But, as above - if the PCs can survive, so can the NPCs.  And certainly, it isn't like threats only *just* started popping up, right? There have been loads of threats for centuries.  So in the past of the world there have been people doing the same things the PCs do.  And so, those people should have risen in level.  If there are thousands of threats, all the time, there then are and have been thousands and thousands of people earning XP working against those threats.  Where are they?Well, actually, it kind of is.  If you aren't playing E6 or the like, the personal power levels characters and creatures can reach in RPGs is vastly above that attainable in the real world, and the methods of gaining that power (XP awards) does not exist in the real world.  The situation in the fantasy world is thus inherently ridiculous, from the real-world point of view.</blockquote>

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