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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 5007148" data-attributes="member: 11697">You can't always tell. The massively armored warrior who wields a golden sword may only be 6th level or so, and the small child who sits and chats with the PC paladin while he waits for an audience with a high level cleric of his deity may actually be an avatar of that deity itself (I did this one time).I've had an archfiend who dressed in comparatively simple robes and had a number of ioun stones drifting around his head, looking almost like a low ranking arcanaloth scribe. In terms of power level, he didn't have formal stats because it would have been pointless.And then there's the normal, looking arcanaloth (albeit crazy, naked, and covered in githyanki blood) who has the shifting, color-changing eyes of an ultroloth. Unique features on a fiend are never a good thing for PCs.One of the more powerful beings in my last campaign, Tellura ibn Shartalan the Dire Shepherd (a baernaloth), had the outward appearance of a teenaged aasimar girl with a lame, crippled leg. Just don't look at the shadow she perpetually cast regardless of lighting, that moved on its own and very much was not the reflection of her physical form.I have a habit of underplaying the appearance of very powerful beings. It might even be a hallmark trait of my campaigns, along with cute and sometimes annoying faerie dragons, mephits, and imps.</blockquote>