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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 5871293" data-attributes="member: 1879">The original notion of tiers, as I understand the concept, is that each tier represents a scope of interest.Base tier is a farmer who never travels more than a few miles from his house in his life. Adventurers are a tier up from this. They travel, they see a bit of the world, they solve problems for farmers. Their powers are still limited to things they or a few henchmen can take care of. A town mayor is probably also in about this tier.The next tier is the AD&D name level. At this point your concerns are larger than your personal reach. You control a realm, a guild, a university, a merchant fleet. Here you have staff and followers. Your words may be more important than your deeds. You have power.Epic tier is beyond this. An empire, a world, planar balance, the concerns of the gods.Levels are not strictly connected to this. A Monk who trained up to 20th level without ever leaving his monastery would be base tier. The 12 year old boy emperor of united eurasia is epic tier even if he doesn't have a level yet. A 25th level adventurer who still kicks doors at the behest of others is heroic tier even if he is the most personally powerful man on the plane.How a base tier King who can't manage to aquire a +1 sword (unlike every third orc) relates to tiers as I understand them, I have no idea. A King is, by definition, a realm level power.</blockquote>