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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4155614" data-attributes="member: 49613">What we're looking at here is partly a "legacy issue".In OD&D, a 4th level fighter is a "Hero" (like Boromir), an 8th level fighter is a "Superhero" (like Beowulf)... Grendel is a standard 6+3 HD troll, etc.  Various things about the game have changed over the years, but this issue still lingers.Having a 4th level guard (for example) is like having Boromir on guard duty.  Only the most grandiose fantasy empire could manage that, and then only in its fabulous capital!  You don't have Boromir or Sinbad or Theseus standing around some crappy guard tower.So can a stealthy rogue one-shot mighty Boromir?  As a 4th level fighter, Boromir has 1 level in the "Dude" class and 3 levels in the "Script Immunity" prestige class.  So no... at the last moment he hears the thief and turns aside slightly, sees a shadow or a reflection and dodges, the blow is stopped by his mail coat, etc.  Why?  Really, because you don't get to one-shot a hero of such mighty proportion.In the ensuing years, most of the numbers in the game have become inflated, though not all.  Nowadays being 4th level doesn't mean you're an earth-shaker... but it still means you can't be one-shotted.Bottom line for me is that a watch tower flunky should probably be level 1 only, or 2 at maximum (for a sergeant, perhaps); going above that means that you've got beings of legend on guard duty.</blockquote>