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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4060820" data-attributes="member: 14159">Back in the 2e era, in the High Level Campaigns sourcebook, they had a guide to demographics, where they had 18th level characters being roughly one in a million (17th level characters were roughly on in 500,000). I still use those general demographics rules.&nbsp; It assumes that only one out of 10 people reaches 1st level (in AD&amp;D terms) or gets PC class levels (In 3.x terms), and of those only half have made it to 2nd level, and half again to 3rd and so on.&nbsp; A village of a couple thousand people might have one 9th level character, the General of a huge army of 10,000 men is probably around 11th level, and about one in 10,000,000 is actually &quot;Epic&quot; and has crossed over to 21st level or higher.If you realize that there are hundreds of millions of sentients across Faerun, especially when you take into account the Underdark and the monstrous sentients not often counted in censuses, even by those pretty conservative demographics rules there are going to be a good number of high level characters.&nbsp; It is quite reasonable that if there are several hundred high-level people in a continent, they'll be some of the most famous people who have done famous things and be well known for their power and accomplishments.Interestingly, by extension of those rules, a 30th level character (which was also the normal limit of mortal progression in 2e according to High Level Campaigns and Dragon Kings) is about one in 5.4 billion, meaning the highest level person on Modern Earth would be a lone 30th level guy.&nbsp; The highest level person in the U.S. would be around 26th level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 4060820, member: 14159"] Back in the 2e era, in the High Level Campaigns sourcebook, they had a guide to demographics, where they had 18th level characters being roughly one in a million (17th level characters were roughly on in 500,000). I still use those general demographics rules. It assumes that only one out of 10 people reaches 1st level (in AD&D terms) or gets PC class levels (In 3.x terms), and of those only half have made it to 2nd level, and half again to 3rd and so on. A village of a couple thousand people might have one 9th level character, the General of a huge army of 10,000 men is probably around 11th level, and about one in 10,000,000 is actually "Epic" and has crossed over to 21st level or higher. If you realize that there are hundreds of millions of sentients across Faerun, especially when you take into account the Underdark and the monstrous sentients not often counted in censuses, even by those pretty conservative demographics rules there are going to be a good number of high level characters. It is quite reasonable that if there are several hundred high-level people in a continent, they'll be some of the most famous people who have done famous things and be well known for their power and accomplishments. Interestingly, by extension of those rules, a 30th level character (which was also the normal limit of mortal progression in 2e according to High Level Campaigns and Dragon Kings) is about one in 5.4 billion, meaning the highest level person on Modern Earth would be a lone 30th level guy. The highest level person in the U.S. would be around 26th level. [/QUOTE]

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