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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ashockney" data-source="post: 1729141" data-attributes="member: 1363">Sounds like a cool topic to me Dragonblade.I prefer a more traditional vision of the role of character level in a world.  I've found it to work quite well to assume a "ratio" approach (for example):8:10 population are commoners1:10 population are classed levels1:10 population are classed npc's1:4 of classed npc's are militia1:2 of militia are Warrior 11:10 of militia are Warrior 51:20 of militia are Warrior 101:100 of militia are Warrior 151:1000 of militia are Warrior 201:10,000 of militia are Epic FightersThis gives a good feel of "believeability" while still allowing for plenty of "major players" in the world.  If you assume a typical continent with 2mm to 200mm people, the numbers above get pretty big (ie, 1:250,000 pop = epic fighters, therefore picture that the US would have roughly 8,000 epic fighters).  That's plenty to deal with an "epic" party, while still very-much presenting a world where "most are commoners" and "dealing with epic/high-level npc's is pretty rare...until you get there yourself.Changes I'd love to see:Better balance for the spells and save dc's in epic.A good epic spell system.Better balance for other feat/magic item/class combinations.More uniqueness in the classes and class or prestige class options.My characters seemed to gravitate toward "racial alterations" and "templates" as epic alternatives (that balance well).A terrific system for managing a network or organization.A simple, tactically challenging method for holding large-scale battles.A method for managing a kingdom (from one castle to an entrie sprawling continent), with a scalable system for determining actions.A more simple method for good tactical combat at high levels.  Combat shouldn't have to take 2 hours.</blockquote>

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