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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cerberus2112" data-source="post: 511440" data-attributes="member: 5255">From the Dungeon magazine writer's guidelins, there is a caution that in a perfectly balanced series of encounters (assuming 5% chance of death in any one encounter), a character only has a 50% chance of surviving to the next level.  This fact dramatically reduces the number of characters of high level.  Taking this into consideration as a general rule, you will find that from among this population: of 2.56 million, 1.285 million survive to 2nd level1.1525 million survive to 3rd level531,250 survive to 4th level265,625 survive to 5th level132,812 survive to 6th level66,406 survive to 7th level33,203 survive to 8th level16,601 survive to 9th level8,300 survive to 10th level4,150 survive to 11th level2,075 survive to 12th level1,037 survive to 13th level518 survive to 14th level259 survive to 15th level179 survive to 16th level89 survive to 17th level44 survive to 18th level22 survive to 19th level11 survive to 20th level5 survive to 21st level2 survive to 22nd level1 survives to 23+ levelFive Epic level characters (total, not just spellcasters) produced from the nation over the course of multiple generations.  They won't all coexist through their epic careers.  This seems much more reasonable, don't you think?</blockquote>