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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7696679" data-attributes="member: 6716779">This. In 1E Lolth has 66 hit points, a Balor averaged 44 and level 10 was in effect epic levels. LotR makes perfect sense when most of the heroes were level 1-4 with maybe Aragorn being level 8 or 10 and the majority of the population is 1HD.2E gave the demographics of a generic D&D world (High Level Campaign book). Level 18 was 1 in a million. To put it into perspective.The city of Rome in the 1st century would have had 1 level 18 character. Italia overall would have had 4-5. The whole empire maybe 30 such characters.In 1492 Castlle would have had 5 such characters. Aragon would have had 1, France 15-30 (depending on the date) 1700 England would have had 5 such characters, Scotland 1.1776 the USA could have had 4.Ottoman Empire at its height could have had 20-30 such characters. Most of them would have been thieves as well going by the xp tables<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=";)" />. That was also the upper limit of such characters doesn't mean they will actually exist.</blockquote>