NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7138621" data-attributes="member: 23751">The deck of many things is depending on the edition an artifact or magic item.  As such it is encountered via adventuring.  Any exp granted by it comes from adventuring, just like exp granted by gold in 1e came from adventuring.  Adventuring is not just killing monsters, nor is that the only way to gain exp while adventuring.  No, and the god didn't give them to her.  Those levels are never hers.  Rather they are the god's or the temple's, depending on what the story about her gaining the temporary use of those levels actually is.That never happens from anything inherent to the FR, though.  The high level NPCs don't appear in a single scene, ever, unless the DM puts them there.  No high level NPC is watching what is going on, opting not to step in and stop it.  There are no high level NPCs aware of all the happens, making weird that no high level NPC stepped in to stop it.  The only way that will ever happen is if you have a bad DM.Do you really think a party of levels 1-15 can compete with an epic wizard like Raistlin?  Look at the justice league.  Batman shouldn't even be there according to this philosophy.  Between Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and the Martian Manhunter, the rest of the League should be overshadowed and not even bother, and that's with the big guys actually present.........unlike what happens in the Forgotten Realms.Modules are not canon.  Not because I don't want them to be, but because in general they just aren't.  The same goes for novels.  Look at Star Wars.  Tons of novels with tons of great stories, but not canon.  These FR novels and modules aren't canon unless the company actually makes those changes in the setting and/or adds those stories to setting supplements.Nothing is canon unless the company explicitly says so.  Many things are just farmed out to people to use the logo on, but aren't actually officially product history. Again, see Star Wars.</blockquote>

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