D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

[Remathilis]

I think a lot of settings could benefit from just a short sidebar about what a 1st, 3rd, 5th, etc. level character means in that setting.

Ideally, they should mean the same thing in every setting. It's not like level progression or monster challenge ratings change with settings.

 

[Thomas Shey]

What the game has isn't the relevant bit. What the world has is important.

If you don't think what the game does here matters as much to many people as what the world avowedly says should happen, I'm afraid I have to disabuse you. There's a constant refrain in many places how out of sync a set of game elements is to the game fiction for the world involved.

Perhaps it seems so, to you.

I have every reason to believe its not "just me".

 

[Chaltab]

Ideally, they should mean the same thing in every setting. It's not like level progression or monster challenge ratings change with settings.

It does say something about the nature of the setting how rare it is to find a high level character. In some settings like Eberron high level characters are very rare and being level 15 means you're likely the strongest exemplar of your class for leagues... meanwhile in say Exandria, there's an entire city full of clerics and the Forgotten Realms has Thay where minions like Sofina have 9th level spells.

 

[Umbran]

I have every reason to believe its not "just me".

Dude, we are not engaged in a battle for the soul of gaming.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Dude, we are not engaged in a battle for the soul of gaming.

No, but since I'm usually talking about what I think gamers as a group think (and when I'm not, I try to make that clear), you're going to see me do this every time, and if its annoying, that's as it is.