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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 7037866" data-source="post: 9573857">I explained why this makes sense here:Perhaps you didn't see it or felt it wasn't adequate? Or maybe you just disagree with it?Using your own example, the ogre doesn't shift posititions because the PCs leveled up, the ogre shifts positions because the PCs are now encountering the cloud giant... who is the real "boss" running the show. All the lower bosses (ogres et al.) report to the cloud giant and the ogres happen to be there at that time. If the PCs encounter the cloud giant and the ogre is bossing the giant around, that wouldn't fit most fictions at all.Now, if the PCs had encountered the cloud giant at level 3, they would have seen the ogres in service to the cloud giant then; and would likely have to flee or be killed by such an obviously superior force. Of course, there might have been a bunch of goblins in that force as well, all listening to the giant and the ogres commanding them.The fiction is at lower levels when the PCs happen upon the ogre he is the boss of the goblins in the area. The cloud giant just isn't around.The fiction actually supports this concept of a low-level "boss" becoming a lackey for a high-level "boss" -- it is pretty much how things work IRL. A captain leads a unit in the field (or sergeant or whatever), but back at the command station the captain is getting the general his coffee.</blockquote>