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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9800224" data-attributes="member: 27957">A big complication is the question of how diegetic the whole system of levels is. Because if we assume that it's not a privilege of only the specific PCs, then the D&D world is one where the profession of adventurer has an absurdly high mortality rate, but the lucky few that survive earn immense power. Power enough to ignore governments, if not topple them. Which means governments exist by either not crossing too many high level adventurers, or by somehow fielding an equal force.That's why in the Japanese branch of fantasy adventure stories, which tend to be both highly diegetic and valuing of social order, you so often have an official Adventurer's Guild whose high level senior members regulate and police the rest. And they exist in a balance of power with high level government champions, the Royal Knights or some such, often with some headhunting between branches.</blockquote>