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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 2054496" data-attributes="member: 1465">How do you create the important people in your campaign? People such as the leaders, kings or rulers of the world: political rulers, uber-riches, military chiefs, aristocrats and sages for example. Basically how do you make the "powerful people", which are "powerful" in a meaning of the world similar to the real world?I'm asking this because I've always seen DMs and published material tie this "power" to character level, and frankly I think it often sucks. Why should a king necessarily be a high-level character? Chances are that he is quite capable, but why should he be e.g. the highest-level character of his kingdom? That kind of assumes he got his kingdom by fighting, and that's not so commonly true.This came to mind while preparing an upcoming campaign, and casually reading some D&D material. I noticed that in some old adventure (one from the WotC site) the leader of the enemies wasn't always the highest-level character. For example it could have a henchman, bodyguard or spy who is much higher in level, but doesn't have the leadership to be in charge (or simply misses the will or the opportunity). But otherwise in all 3ed books I think I've every single time seen that the "boss" has the highest level or CR... such as if you have a group of creatures, not necessarily oriented towards war or combat (thinking of the Celestial Lords in BoED), always the leader must have the top CR.Do you follow this habit or not?</blockquote>

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