How does Forgotten Realms make any sense at all when even small villages with 6,340 gp of assets are ruled by high-level wizards?
>Maeruhal (Village): Conventional; AL NG; 200 gp limit; Assets 6,340 gp; Population 693
>Authority Figures: Mayor Rinlin Pulgro (NG male human evoker 14/Halruaan elder 2).
>Important Characters: Kelvrim Errowd (LN male human diviner 11/Halruaan elder 1), Dobyo Flurrig (NG male human abjurer 12/Halruaan elder 2), Inyda Lauz (LG female human diviner 12/Halruaan elder 4), and Drindos Bez-Mont (N male human evoker 13/Halruaan elder 2)
Halruaan Elder is a full casting prestige class, and a really good one at that.
>>44355129
FR has some of the stupidest shit sometimes...
>Yaulazna (Hamlet): Conventional; AL LE; 30,000 gp limit; Assets 9,000,000 gp; Population varies (about 180), averages 300
>Authority Figures: Yargo (LE male lightfoot halfling rogue 9/Great Sea corsair 8), the Pirate King of Yaulazna. Important Characters: Zuusted Nimderval (NE male human conjurer 20), Yargo’s right-hand man
>Yargo has a powerful friend—a renegade wizard from Halruaa named Zuusted Nimderval (NE male human conjurer 20), who has developed a variation on the plane shift spell that actually causes the entire shantytown to vanish to another plane temporarily.
Here we have a pirate hamlet whose ruler's right-hand man is a level 20 conjurer wizard who Plane Shifts the whole "shantytown" to another plane.
I imagine it's sort of like Exalted and the Games of Divinity, where the wizards are too busy having their heads up their asses to actually shape the world, and everyone just doesn't mess with them on the off chance that they might catch them at a moment when they don't have their collective heads up their collective asses.
>>44355175
>A town of 300 people has 9,000,000 gp of assets
Okay, FR.
>>44355271
It's a pirate hamlet.
>>44355271
More importantly:
>the Pirate King is a lightfoot halfling rogue 9/corsair 6
>his right-hand man is a 20th-level conjurer
>>44355129
I want to take one of those skyships for a joyride.
>>44355480
Rogue 9/Great Sea corsair 8, actually.
>>44355480
Clearly the conjurer is on it for the money, a place to chill and doesn't give a shit about running the place. A man after my own heart.
>>44355480
Why would a leader even have to be the strongest? Political power does not neccesarily equate to personal strength. Sure sometimes you band people together by the strength of your arm but that isn't really the norm. Leadership is its own quality. Maybe that conjurer just wants to post on taiwanese forums about how to summon his succubi waifu all day. Hardly a leader of men.
>>44355129
Those assets don't really seem to match with the text description.
Also, what book are you pulling these from?
>>44355129
Well reading that statblock, it looks like Maeruhal is like a plantation town for rich Halruuans and their lower-order workers. While you have powerful and wealthy sky wizards living in the town to rule over things and their permanent population of servants, most of the people in the village and the mines are just transients who die off pretty quickly or just come for the gambling like going off to Las Vegas for a weekend.
>>44356109
Unapproachable East.
>>44355175
>>44355558
>>44355546
>Yargo uses a good portion of the money to keep Zuusted happy.
>>44356161
That doesn't make it any more believable.
Does anyone notice that the small town in the next paragraph is led by a LEVEL 20 CLERIC?
>>44356178
That's like saying it's ridiculous for Las Vegas to have mobsters in charge in 1950.
>>44356199
Those mobsters weren't high-level, reality-warping wizards.
>>44355129
>>44355175
>3.5 stats
There's your problem.
>>44356187
>Literally the Lhasa of Mystra
>The Dalai Lama would never be an Epic Level Cleric
>>44356207
Halruaa also isn't your typical shit-level backwater. It's literally just Netheril but landbound.
>>44355175
It looks like the town has so much money because they basically have a giant pile of gold hidden in some sort of treasury vault there. And the wizard just does it because he gets money and can fuck about doing wizard things and create new spells.
The plot hook is obviously asking for a take-off of Ocean's Eleven to steal it.
>>44355129
Halruaa is a country full of wizards. If they want to chill in your village, then are you going to say no?
>>44356249
The basic problem is that there's a cuntry of wizards in the first place. Why bother with Adventurers then?
>>44356257
ARE there many adventurers in Halruaa? The place doesn't seem to get a lot of attention as an adventuring area, so much so that they went ahead and blew it up in 4E. Most of the adventuring is up in the North, where as soon as you leave the smallish safe zones around the cities you're in orc, troll and giant infested wilderness.
>>44356249
Even the Silver Marches have mid-level rangers and wizards chilling in tiny hamlets.
>>44356219
>Literally the Lhasa of Mystra
I thought those were the actual epic-level Chosen of Mystra?
>>44356404
Clerics, and the Church in general, are there to spread worship, protect the faithful, and work with others to enforce their ideals on the world.
Chosen, if a god has any, are used to protect their deity and act as their herald.
A cleric of Mask would advise a thieves guild or provide healing, while a chosen of Mask would have to hold their portfolio or hide their divinity from other gods.
Sometimes, these jobs overlap. An example would be Fzoul Chembryl, the Chosen of Bane
There's not much wrong with that.
A wizard's tower with a gigantic pile of gold and several precious artifacts doesn't really do much for the economy of your average hamlet.
>>44356289
The Counselors and Kings trilogy took place there.
In the Shining South book, PCs could investigate Shadow Weave corruption in the council of Elders, expose eugenic experiments on the Jordains, or try to steal the plans for an airship (or the airship itself).
You would have to run it like Ancient Netheril.
>>44356394
Yeah, but the place is fucking huge. And as soon as you leave those villages, there's literally nothing except things that want to kill you. Case in point, Trollmoors.
Maybe it's just me but I feel like most people only get up to level 3 or 4, with skilled individuals (Successful wizards, sergeants in armies, basic knights, minor lords) reaching levels 5-7, and kings, royal guard, generals, and court wizards reaching level 10
After that, you reach into heroic figures: Grand sorcerer kings, Heroes of kingdoms, despicable plague masters, etc.
I can never understand why people stat towns and cities where every guard and thief is level 9.
>>44356771
That might work for Eberron, Krynn, and Golarion. Faerun and Athas use different rules. Were you posting about EL10 in the Pathfinder general thread?
>>44355129
>little more than a rough-and-tumble mining town
>11% of the population are fucking wizards
>>44356809
Nah, but what did they say?
>>44356864
See >>44353398
>>44356841
I just looked at the DMG, page 139, for population generation. We can assume Wizards are as common as druids or rangers in the Silver Marches since there are a few mage colleges in Silverymoon.
A hamlet normally has a community modifier of -2 for the highest level characters, but on a roll of 96-100, you add +10.
The highest level local wizard for the random population is 1d8+10.
Wait, are you people seriously defending an hamlet with less than 700 inhabitants having multiple 15+ level characters?
>>44355546
Or legimate friend of Yargo, who he lets run the shit since he's more charismatic yadda yadda.
Haven't actually read on the characters.
>>44357760
Welcome to Faerun
>>44357760
If it's in wizard land, yes.
>>44355129
Assets are more like the maximum amount of cash that PCs can get for selling stuff in town, not the combined value of everything in the town.
And I think maybe they err on the side of putting a lot of lazy high-level NPCs in towns and cities because it's insurance against rampaging PCs. As soon as the players realize they can beat any town guard in a fight, you're in trouble.
>>44358179
if every hamlet has a 14th level wizard then why does the world need PC's?
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>>44355175
literally the powerful to level continents in two random ass villages
FR is such a trash setting
>>44358318
Because killing rats in taverns is below level 10+ characters.
