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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 989504" data-attributes="member: 3146">It should be noted that maintaining versimilitude in replacement characters differs greatly at high and low levels. Before 4th level, you can easily posit a farmboy looking for revenge on his family's killers, a runaway wizard's apprentice, a mendicant priest, or a deserter joining the party. There are plenty of appropriately levelled people out there.By the high end of mid levels, however, there can only be so many "greatest knights in the kingdom." After a few vacancies in the round table have been filled, one will begin to wonder where all these great knights have been coming from.And at high levels, the versimilitude involved in character replacement becomes even more problematic. Sepulchrave's story hour is probably extreme in this regard but imagine the difficulties with replacing Mostin. The PCs know the names of most wizards of his caliber. Making a former NPC a PC would be possible but there simply aren't many unknown wizards of Mostin and Shomei's caliber. Similarly, replacing Nwm or Eadric would be highly problematic. The problem can also be illustrated in the more familiar world of Greyhawk. If the PCs are of similar power to the Circle of 8, there just aren't replacements waiting around out there. Now, characters with ECLs might be one alternative--have a hound archon paladin join the group, or a Githerazai monk, or a troll barbarian, or even a dragon of some kind or other. However, that option would also stretch versimilitude if it were used often. A party of a Half celestial, a dragon, a troll, and a devil on the path of redemption would begin to look a bit silly.</blockquote>

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