![]() The nation of Thay was ruled by a council of mages of 20th level or above with their most powerful member (Szass Tam) being a match for Elminster several times over The Cowled Wizards were currently being infiltrated by a 36th-level demilich necromancer by the name of Shoon To think about things during the AD&D 2E years alone. ![]() the Forgotten Realms is not lacking for really, really, really high level and effective villains who provide a check on the high level heroes. You're basing your assumptions off of an adventure you read years ago, and a series of video games. Outside of certain really large and really magical cities like Calimport and Waterdeep, it's basically impossible to purchase magical items in the Forgotten Realms because it works on the same core assumptions as AD&D 2E, but the video games mostly ignored this for the purposes of player convenience because it was relatively more difficult to code in a system where the players could create their own magical items as they could in tabletop. While you can get temple services in most places in the Realms, they're limited by the standard local priests available to provide them, and that's usually a priest of 4th-7th level at the absolute outside, not much more powerful than early-level players themselves in isolation. Second, those temple services and magic shops are simply the video game being kind to the players. Glancing through The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier boxed set, outside of the large cities most small towns tend to have the stand-out individuals with something like five or six levels of fighter the larger and more important areas have higher level characters, as do places known for higher concentrations of magic like Longsaddle, but that's to be expected and you generally wouldn't be adventuring in such a way that has much of a bearing on those areas until you're higher level yourself anyway. it's just that elves release a smell that triggers hunger glands when they're afraid. but it isn't restricted to them.Įdit: oh, and thri-kreen actually don't think elves taste particularly good. So yes, it is home to the really widely known ridiculous high level people. Pick a fight in a random bar, you'll probably find at least a few absurdly high level characters there for no apparent reason. and maybe even a local adventurer party or two just hanging around at any given time. a thieve's guild with half a dozen thieves who are high enough level that they could have started their own thieve's guild. ![]() probably at least one temple, where you can most likely buy access to almost the entire priest spell list. as well as a mage or even a full-blown guild that can sell you spell knowledge that probably goes at least up to level 5. each town probably has a magic shop selling dozens of magic items, some of which are probably extremely powerful. you go someplace in one of those forgotten realms video games. certainly, it seems like any time i looked at an old adventure from the 2e days, it was like the authors felt compelled to make every remotely significant NPC you might encounter have a bunch of class levels, so it could very well just be that more people in the realms are detailed, and therefore there are a ridiculous number of high level NPCs.īut seriously, think about it. perhaps that's because the realms simply has more detailed NPCs, i don't know. It isn't just elminster and his ridiculously high level buddies. but why doesn't the priest at the local temple/shrine/whatever (who is probably level 10+) team up with the captain of the guards (who is also probably level 10+) and the wizard who lives nearby (who needs those trade routes operating to get new spell components and such) who is probably also level 10+ get off their butts and do something about it? Sure, elminster won't show up to solve the goblin clans around podunkville getting together to raid trade routes. also, a lot of those evil people are pretty pathetic, and let's face it, a bunch of them are evil, sure, but not evil that threatens the world. There are also a ridiculous number of other high level NPCs, including a selection of all those evil peoples' good counterparts.Īlso, most of the neutral ones. I refer again to the Simbul_of_Aglarond Fallacy (), with an extract from the post in question. To add to that, there are specific sidebars and sections dealing with this particular topic.
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