>At 10:43 PM 5/16/97 +0200, Gandalf the White(gandalf@ath.forthnet.gr)wrote:
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>>That's another problem in birthright i'd like to bring up. NPCs are
>>presented as a typical one never goes over 5th lvl, and the really special
>>ones ussually reach say, 12th. So what happens when you just have a normal,
>>lenghty campaign? We have reached a lvl where the DM must really keep
>>trying to keep us from dominating all small states in Anuire...
>>
>
>Your DM should have had his world evolving and growing with you. If not the
>first thing he should do is adjust the levels and resources of a few of his
>major NPCs to match yours. Giving them some nasty little plans of thier own.
>Then he just has to add in a few incidents that are more your level, say a
>Jabberwocky arrives in your land. Or a Fiend has been summoned by a bumbling
>Mage and its terroizing the countryside. A hidden enclave of Mind Flayers
>uses Hill Giant slaves to get them livestock(your citizens). Prehaps one of
>the items you have bears a legacy, and maybe a curse. A visit to the SW may
>be in order to bring down your levels until he is more ready to handle them.
>Its not to hard to keep uping the ante in a BR game the DM just needs to
>prepare for the time the PCs get there. As Players you may want to give your
>DM some time to put together a challenge for your group. Take some time off
>playing BR for awhile until he is ready to give you a run for your money. :)
>
>Undertaker, richt@metrolink.net

Actually, he did start uping the NPC's lvls, and we have given him time for
sth nice... and it's ready now. But that's not my point.
We have enough challenge. But the point is...
isn't itr a bit unrealistic? Take Boeruine. We have no involments with that
jerk so i don't know what the DM has done with him. But say we had.
He's lived 40 years and he's, what?, 12th lvl? Our game has gone on for 9
game years and i am now (mage) 12th lvl, a paladin is 9th, and a
fighter/thief is 8/9. So, will boeruine be 15th lvl now? I mean, he would
need to gain almost 1/3 of the xps he already has to do that! And is he
adventuring as much in his 40s as when in his 20s?
Anyway, as you said, i think, it is just some form of cheating, essential
to keep the game going though.

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