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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1428423" data-attributes="member: 463">Boromir, of course, in the books was killed not by an artifact but by a horde of orc mooks armed with bows, although I guess the Ring did mess with his judgement!Re Duncan MacLeod - he does seem like clearly the best Immortal duelist in the TV show, although relative power in the show is hard to judge, I don't think they're using a D&D type level system, it's more like BRP where a lucky strike can fell the greatest warrior.  The movies were more d20-ish.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />IMC deity-level PCs are often the best, but can still be challenged - eg Thrin, Lord of Swords (with a Wardpact against Swords) was terrified when he encountered a mortal opponent armed with a vorpal _battleaxe_.   I definitely agree with those who say that you don't need to scale the world up as the PCs level in order to challenge them.  Sometimes IMC the PCs face difficult challenges far _below_ their level, and still sweat it - eg 11th+ level PCs recently had to deal with a castle full of mostly 2nd-4th level NPCs, barely any challenge in a straight fight.  However the PCs had to rescue a condemned prisoner, assassinate the enemy lord, defeat a conspiracy and instate the prisoner as the new lord of the castle, without killing anyone they weren't supposed to - it was a tough scenario to pull off without a general massacre and the players were very pleased when they managed it successfully.</blockquote>

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