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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 1947446" data-attributes="member: 13471">Many Bothans died to bring us this information...Primarily it makes sense for first-level characters, and only until they go up a level or two. After all, what do your higher-level characters do with all those 1st-level followers?  The level gap is so high that they aren't even useful as speedbumps against the high-CR monsters.  Thus they get told off to guard the fortress, or gather info, or whatever.Similarly, it's always seemed odd to me that, even though most small towns will have several 2nd- or 3rd-level NPCs, the newbie 1st-level PCs ALWAYS run off to confront the goblins or whatever on their own.  If I knew ahead of time that I'd be facing an Ancient Evil, I'd want all the firepower on my side I could muster - so what if they claim most of the loot?  It maximizes MY chance of staying alive...Again, the key is not to have the Big Boys stick around - they go off to loot the dungeon while the lowly newbies are assigned to guard the horses (and have their own little encounter with a pack of wolves or some thieving goblins)."Why can't you send Luke?"  "Well, Luke has flown off somewhere without telling us where he was going - something about looking for yogurt I think.  Meanwhile, we need info on this new weapon the Empire is developing..."</blockquote>