Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2055001" data-attributes="member: 24969"><p>I try to be objective according to my own reasoning that I use IMC. EVerybody gets some XP every year and thus everybody is roughly from 1st to 6th level generally determined by age. That's generally the base. If they are foppish nobles who do nothing but lay around and bask in excess, they probalby are at that base. Besides that, most of the world is rather fuedal and in constant warfare so it's not unusual that leaders would be of higher level just protecting what is theirs, probably twice that level. In the more peaceable areas, there are scheduled tournies which are meant to simulate war and give such nobles experience. Some of the best nobles (and adventurers) do nothing but travel from one tournie to another and spend all year pariticipating in these large combats. Once in power, nobles are usually in constant conflict with those around them. These conflicts are social in nature but I've always hated the body count only nature of XP in D&D and reward these social encounters appropriatly, thus they also are experienced in nature. The largeer and more dynamic the more experienced they are. Still if varys according to age and a young king is typically going to be an inexperienced king unless he once was an adventurer or had some other background that gave him greater than average experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>