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<blockquote data-quote="MostlyDm" data-source="post: 6730199" data-attributes="member: 6788973">Bingo. For example, per Pauper's post a few notches up... The 20th level fighter from the previous campaign can't singlehandedly defeat a whole army. I think the assumption that a lot of high level people exist is probably fine... Because high level people are substantially less intimidating and deadly. In 5e, Drizzt would get eviscerated by a thousand orcs (disclaimer: I never read that book, just basing this on the name.) The example Archmage NPC is something like a 19th level wizard, for example. In my campaign I'm expecting the terrifying necromantic minions of a major Lich will probably use that stat block, with some heavy tweaking. There might be a dozen of them in the major city ruled by that Lich. High level NPCs aren't necessarily incompatible with a campaign where the PCs matter... The PCs just may not be the only thing that matters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MostlyDm, post: 6730199, member: 6788973"] Bingo. For example, per Pauper's post a few notches up... The 20th level fighter from the previous campaign [i]can't[/i] singlehandedly defeat a whole army. I think the assumption that a lot of high level people exist is probably fine... Because high level people are substantially less intimidating and deadly. In 5e, Drizzt would get eviscerated by a thousand orcs (disclaimer: I never read that book, just basing this on the name.) The example Archmage NPC is something like a 19th level wizard, for example. In my campaign I'm expecting the terrifying necromantic minions of a major Lich will probably use that stat block, with some heavy tweaking. There might be a dozen of them in the major city ruled by that Lich. High level NPCs aren't necessarily incompatible with a campaign where the PCs matter... The PCs just may not be the only thing that matters. [/QUOTE]

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