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Darson 07-05-04, 08:50 PM	Has the Xp system been changed in Eberon? It seams that the NPC'S are kinda low lwvel considering the great war and all. I know that kings and queens don't fight on the front lines, but what about the roleplaying xp...I mean the interaction encounters that they would have had to have participated in. Seams like the xp system must have been somewhat altered to produce a world without quite a few high level characters (above average amounts anyway). Especially with that war. I know that the war would have produced a much larger number of fighters ( without any interaction awards) So what are they doing....I don't mean the 20 level gods but I mean higher levels across the board? Anyone have input?
lparks 07-05-04, 09:05 PM	You may find some insight into that in one of the answers the writer of the setting posted in the "Ask Keith Baker" thread: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by RedBeastMage Also, just to mention, i believe hellcow said in another thread that there are something like 1000 artificers in sharn. That means that there is 1 artificer out of every 200 people. And thats just one class. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sure, but there's also 18,000 warriors, 12,000 experts, and around 150,000 commoners (And of those artificers, more than half are 1st-level (potentially allied to another class, so you have an expert with one artificer level backing him up). Philosophically -- and this is something not everyone will agree with, I don't believe that NPCs have the same right to XP as PCs do. In Eberron, the PCs are extraordinary individuals. The fact that you can advance as far as you want in whatever class you want is a sign of your heroic potential. The typical Sharn artificer with that 1 artificer level -- that's as far as he's going to go in that class. He's managed to pick up the basics, but he may stay a 1st-level artificer/3rd-level commoner for the rest of his life; he simply doesn't have the potential that you do. In Lord of the Rings, many of the soldiers in the army of Gondor may have been fighting all their lives; but that doesn't make them all 20th-level warriors. Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Faramir -- they have a gift that makes them heroes. Likewise, after a year of adventuring your characters may be far more powerful that a 20-year veteran of the war -- who despite his long military experience, topped out at 5th level. Like I said, some people won't like it, but to me it's about making the game into a story -- and in a story, the heroes and villains stand out from the crowd. Keith Baker Eberron Designer