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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9018918">Dragonlance is a little more on the epic side so I would expect some of the stats to be on the higher end. But it is one of those settings where most of the books I had for it, were from 1E and not 2E, so I can't really comment on the 2E era of material for that line. One thing I noticed going back to old modules is the NPC scores are all over the map and, I think, often simply assigned by writers. In a large number of cases these were ridiculously high averages. For instance these are just random NPCs I clipped from the Book of Crypts for Ravenloft: [ATTACH=full]284683[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]284684[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]284685[/ATTACH]I think a lot of it was also just the designer trying to make a particular NPC really cool or the best at everything. Even Feast of Goblyns, which was one of my favorite modules, chose these stats for Akriel Lucas. I am all for making an effective villain, but these kinds of stats don't really work for me as a GM (it just feels too good across the board----and if your dump stat is a 12?). [ATTACH=full]284686[/ATTACH]Again, I love that module, but I think there was sometimes a lack of oversight or revision on the stat front. Definitely one quirk of the 2E era is things could genuinely be all over the map. And going through many of the other modules, there is a similar tendency to have very high stats allocated across the board. I do get that NPCs are not necessarily following the same rules here as PCs, but it always felt like when I first started playing D&D and guys would show up to the game with characters they rolled all sporting 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 17 stats</blockquote>

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