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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5412134" data-attributes="member: 35909">Because only the PCs are <s>stupid</s> brave enough to do it?  Because the only level 20 casters left are the cowardly/miserly ones that'd rather just hang back in semi-retirement all day cranking out items and making a fortune to support their enormous palaces on pocket dimensions, their sumptuous feats, their harem of women or men...?I don't know, every setting generally has NPCs of higher level, it's up to the DM why they aren't the ones saving the world.And it's not catering the the PCs.  At that level, the PCs have MILLIONS of gold.  They're supposed to be able to get expensive items with it.  The game is balanced around this, as noncasters require more magic items to be effective, while casters can largely replicate the effects of items with spells and just have less daily resources.  And again, they don't need the items as much to begin with.I wonder what the hell was keeping him in check the whole time the PCs were levelling 1-20 if the highest level NPC is 12?  (I've never played the setting, if there's an obvious answer to that for one who has.)</blockquote>