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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 9150360" data-attributes="member: 7029930">In our setting the majority of people will cap at level 9. This is part of the world building laws I've implemented to make sense of high-level play limitations that exist.Something extraordinary is needed for characters (PCs or NPCs) to attain higher levels.The below are some of the ways this has occurred within our campaign.(i) Their mind has to be Awakened i.e. a period of exposure to a mind of the Far Realm.(ii) Awashed with deific essence i.e. PCs killed an undead beholder that had been feeding on the essence of Myrkul in the Mere of the Dead Men during the Time of Troubles. Once the beholder was destroyed and the energies binding it together were released, the PCs in the area were awashed with residual deific ectoplasm.(iii) A spelunking rogue that the Mad Mage, Halaster Blackcloak, was so enamoured with, that he created an improved version of her using the Clone spell. Her original body died leaving her playing the Clone.(iv) Special contracts with powerful devils (PC is unaware it is a Lord of Hell) can see you break the 9th level cap but at a cost, which is enforced.(v) The eventual removal of a series of unique Geas spells, in the shape of runic tattoos all over the body of a PC by a fire giant shaman in the service of Surtur. The removal resulted in permanent physical scarring.(vi) The unfortunate result of a PC (then became NPC) trapped within a Maze spell by the Lady of Pain, which due to the mythal energies in the locale had the unintended effect of making the Maze a time-loop.(vii) Mystaran native who died on Toril, and whose unclaimed soul in the City of the Dead in the Fugue Plane, was reforged and bound to the Forgotten Realms by Kelemvor to carry out a singular purpose. This act by Kelemvor saved his soul from being cast into the Wall of the Faithless.(viii) Exposure to cyphers from Monte Cook's Arcana of the Ancients.</blockquote>

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