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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6957251" data-attributes="member: 996">Aragorn obviously should have been 5th level, just like Gandalf. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (I actually did write up parody versions of the fellowship in 1e AD&D, 3.5, and 4e a number of years ago for a convention, and I did make them all 5th level.  Sorta.  The 1e Gandalf (Vancegulf Mythraindeer) was a '5th level magic-user' - and a human 'character with two classes' who had formerly been a 9th level fighter, and he had 1e psionics enough to demolish a Type VI demon.  The 3.5 Gandalf was a 5th level wizard... half-celestial (ECL +5).  Oh, both with a Staff of the Magi and Ring of Fire Elemental Command, of course. )4e went on and on about the Tiers.  In the PH and both DMGs, IIRC.  The DMG2 focused some on running Paragon Tier so definitely check that out - sadly there was never a DMG3 to deliver Epic Tier ideas.For a low-ish magic LotR-inspired campaign, Paragon would probably be appropriate, at least later, as the scope becomes pretty earth-shaking by the end.  Mechanics in 4e, even level, aren't as tightly coupled to fluff or concepts as in other editions, so, for instance, the fact that Sam & Frodo have just been hanging out in the peaceful Shire their whole lives, while 'Strider,' when introduced, has already had a whole long story-arc of his own, needn't mean that the former two must be 1st level and the later a 'name level' Ranger (9th? 8th?  I forget).   You can gloss over magic items or just turn on inherent bonuses.</blockquote>

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