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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 3831607" data-attributes="member: 17106">My levels go way up. I had PCs play at around 40 for a brief stint, but the mover and shaker NPCs are much higher. They had retired from an earlier campaign, but I let the players pick them back up at the end of the world. I arbitrarily made one of the big NPCs around level 200.So how do regular folks subsist in such a world? Well, dragons dominate all characters, keeping a certain sense of order because the dragons can intervene if they dislike what's happening. The world's government is fairly unified, so many high level NPCs are there to protect the lesser ones. And the world does seem to have a lot of death, carnage, and wars, so civilizations are in fact wiped out periodically, say every few hundred or thousand years. Most powerful NPCs and monsters are more interested in themselves anyway (see level 200 drow who time travels to quiet places with his dragon cohort).The ultimate creature would be a diamond dragon left over from the early days of the world. No one has killed it because they can't-it could easily slaughter the entire pantheon of deities if it wasn't trapped on the Material Plane. Besides diamonds, there are always a few other dragons more powerful than the PCs, as well as the elder deities. I suppose they could theoretically top the ranks of mortals, but that would take a while.</blockquote>