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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 5669079" data-attributes="member: 39593">Absolutely, the biggest issue is trying to preserve the overall feel of the source material without turning it into a mechanical nightmare.The problem is really one of how to place Potterverse wizards on the power scale, and there are some fundamental differences of setting assumption.  In a standard setting 14-15 are some of the very strongest in the setting and there aren't many.  Then you have the HPverse where any fifth year wizard is capable of colonizing Mars if they applied the magic seen in canon intelligently, where dragons are kept on reserves and treated as semi-domesticated animals.  It's an issue of setting assumptions more than anything else, standard setting have PCs of races that have no inherent power and advance through gaining class levels via adventures.  Potterverse wizards are more like titans or dragons in that they are members of an immensely powerful race who need only mature into using the power within them, that any one of them is potentially capable of toppling nations single-handedly if they use that power to full potential.  The ramifications of the demonstrated power of any fully educated Potterverse wizard place them in an equivalent position to upper-tier NPCs.  Going by what the books show Aurors/Death Eaters/Ministry Personnel aren't any better at magic than any other Hogwarts graduate.  The rare HP wizard that isn't satisfied with what they can already do with a seven year education (such as Dumbledore & Riddle) are epic characters whom we only see two of in all seven books, with another pair shuffled across the periphery as centuries old geniuses.So while the PCs would level you need to make the campaign and setting about something beyond that.  So that gaining a level is something that happens over time not a primary goal in itself.</blockquote>

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