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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrumpyOldMan" data-source="post: 1355283" data-attributes="member: 16469">Managed to double post above, sorry.Yes, see my post above. Don’t know much about Shadowrun (punk elves with machine guns – yuk), but there are lots of games where, even without levels characters can become ultra powerful. There are others (like pretty well every SF game I can think of, plus Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, HârnMaster & Pendragon) where characters improve, but not by the extent that they can kill 50 peasants (or orcs), without breaking into a sweat.You raise a few interesting ideas but:Chain of command, again, does this mean that when the PC becomes 12th level he’ll become a General in the Royal Army? Why are Generals expected to be better combat troops than their subordinates? Seems counter-intuitive to me.So Alvin the Archmage is off in the Far Realms dealing with a planar incursion. Alone, is there no-one else who can deal with that threat. How many times is he called away by Planar crises? What happens if he fails? So Mr 12th level is away, hat about Mr 10th level, or Mr 8th level, or even scraping the bottom of the barrel Brian the Barely competent and his 2nd level band?</blockquote>