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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6559293" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Agree. I can never actually tell how good anyone is in Malazan world because Steven Erikson never explains anything and isn't big on consistency--but it's clear that Rake is more powerful than Quick Ben, who is more powerful than Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, and Bauchelain and Korbal Broach would be high-level necromancers in D&amp;D judging by their survival in Capustan so Rake is a couple orders of magnitude beyond that. Similarly, Mok is a couple orders of magnitude beyond any D&amp;D fighter considering that the entire Seguleh &quot;punitive expedition&quot; against the Pannion Domin consisted entirely of him and his two subordinates. (I love that storyline!) To be fair, Lady Envy ended up doing much of the work--Mok might have failed his mission if he hadn't met up with her and Tool, et al.--but that's still some real chutzpah!D&amp;D doesn't scale up beyond 20th level so it's hard to capture any of that, but I suppose if there were 100th or 500th level PCs, Anomander Rake might fit right in there somewhere. (I mean, he's got somewhere between 200,000 and 600,000 years of XP to draw on! Erikson's timelines are inconsistent but he's at least 200,000[1].)[1] One of my gripes with Erikson is that Rake doesn't actually feel 200,000 years old to me in the way that, say, Sethra Lavode does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6559293, member: 6787650"] Agree. I can never actually tell how good anyone is in Malazan world because Steven Erikson never explains anything and isn't big on consistency--but it's clear that Rake is more powerful than Quick Ben, who is more powerful than Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, and Bauchelain and Korbal Broach would be high-level necromancers in D&D judging by their survival in Capustan so Rake is a couple orders of magnitude beyond that. Similarly, Mok is a couple orders of magnitude beyond any D&D fighter considering that the entire Seguleh "punitive expedition" against the Pannion Domin consisted entirely of him and his two subordinates. (I love that storyline!) To be fair, Lady Envy ended up doing much of the work--Mok might have failed his mission if he hadn't met up with her and Tool, et al.--but that's still some real chutzpah! D&D doesn't scale up beyond 20th level so it's hard to capture any of that, but I suppose if there were 100th or 500th level PCs, Anomander Rake might fit right in there somewhere. (I mean, he's got somewhere between 200,000 and 600,000 years of XP to draw on! Erikson's timelines are inconsistent but he's at least 200,000[1].) [1] One of my gripes with Erikson is that Rake doesn't actually [I]feel[/I] 200,000 years old to me in the way that, say, Sethra Lavode does. [/QUOTE]

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