>That one level 20 NPC who could solve all the problems the main party are facing in a heartbeat but doesn't
>>96875853Hiroshimoot in a nutshell.
>>96875853Is this new puckee slop? It certainly looks like puckee slop.
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>>96875887The little finger on the right hand is a little suspect, but that could just be the angle.
At least Gandalf actually does stuff.
>>96875853If it affected him, sure.But any setting that has D&D 3e/5e levels and also has world ending events that don't have world uniting solutions is a shit setting
>>96875853Yeah level based games have a ton of problems, this is one of them.
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>>96875853>I'm a frail old wizard, but even in an antimagic zone I'm tankier than your party's tank, and with a better attack bonus tooLevels are stupid
>>96875887It's not new, he's been posting the wizard for at least a year.
I always make sure my players know that high level NPCs have better things to do than help them.high level wizards are on on a quest to find ancient lore in long forgotten libraries, high level fighters are famous gladiators or are leading entire armies, high level paladins and clerics are on divine quests from their god, etc.you cant just pay a high level caster to revive your dead friend cause people that powerful are insanely rare and have much better things to do.
>>96875853>The level 20 NPCs are the ones who hired the players to help them out.
>>96875853Easy solutions.>They realize they won't be around forever so it's better for the next generation to take up the mantleor>They're off fucking around doing more important shit like beating the shit out of extraplanar entities offscreen
>>96875853Who are you quoting?
>>96875853The wizard does help, and the villains murder him for it and absorb his power.
>>96875853sucks to suck, fag munch
>That one level 50 NPC who could solve all the problems the main party are facing in a heartbeat but doesn't because he's just looking for amusement
>>96875853Yeah it's almost as if tebletop games are shit for conventional story telling.
>>96875853>who could solve all the problems the main party are facingAnd how much are you going to pay him for it? You want him to clean out a dungeon? Then that dungeon and everything in it are his. But let's face it, there's not enough in there to interest him, or he'd have gone and taken it already. So fuck off and do it yourself.
>>96875853Same>>96875887Fucking>>96876040PersonEvery fucking thread. You post a shitty barely-on-topic post, then you scream "PUCKEEE REEE WAAAAAAAHHH" then you post a reddit screenshot and bumpfag it over and over and over and over and over and over.Kill yourself.
>>96875853https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/image/sLMr33o-2rp7DfwT-CoVaw/Only a mere 18 results. You're getting lazy, little piglet.
>>96877532Ever heard of sage?
>>96877540Sage doesn't show anymore because of faggots using it as a downvote.
>>96875853Kill yourself puckee.
When will the moderators enforce their policy against spamming/flooding and extremely low quality posts against the redditor puckee, who has been shitting up /tg/ for 5 years?https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1g7anih/art_comm_astefelos_the_wise_wizard_by_tomasz_ryger/https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/image/sLMr33o-2rp7DfwT-CoVaw/
>>96877564As soon as you learn to sage, faggot.
>>96875853That one level 20 greasy pepperoni fart ripped in your faggot redditor face>*BRAAAAAAAAAAAAP!*
>>96877684There's no magical "dox" parameter in the reddit api. 90 % of puckee threads are made by trolls. Half the board is sick of them, but bumpfag likes to hang around and mods are hellbent in making this a safespace for neurodivergent/retarded people.
>>96877532>stop noticing things
Mod thread.
>>96876444Trips of motherfucking truth.
>>96878502kek
>>96872084And that's one image, like just one. There's 4 or 5 active threads by him on the board right now, with him making inane samefag posts to keep them bumped, which works because the mods took away the poster counter and disabled autosage.
If a problem is big enough, the NPCs will step in. My players know that they only get to do the quests of their specific caliber. Once they reach level 12 or so, they are the strongest in the land usually.
>>96875853Ryu Hayabusa when he's in DOA
>>96877564They haven't done shit for random inane question bumpfag, so... never?
>>96875853>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1g7anih/art_comm_astefelos_the_wise_wizard_by_tomasz_ryger/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/sLMr33o-2rp7DfwT-CoVaw/>18 times
>>96876340Does Elminster ever actually do anything?
>>96877551Why do you need it to show, faggot? It still works.
>>96875887PDS
>>96877202Wizards are too based
>>96884430tropes
>>96876340He tried not to. At least not directly. Gandalf being called a "wizard" is a matter of wisdom. He did a lot of work gathering information, talking to people, and organizing things to reach good outcomes.
>>96888099Gandalf did more
>>96889034Gandalf could have done a ton more honestly. His magic was so soft as far as rules go, I'm positive he could have solved more problems than he did in the movies.
>>96889034Sure. But this was the focus of his actions. It was Tolkien's intention by using the word "wizard" that the character was defined by being a wise character who offers wisdom to address problems. This is in line with him not just directly solving every fucking problem by using magic. It isn't his role in the story (or the role of himself as a maiar) to interfere so directly all of the time with what's going on in Middle Earth.A lot of the stuff that he has been involved with, he doesn't really do a lot of the heavy lifting. He just plays an integral part in figuring things out and getting things going in the right direction. Ideally, this is what your overpowered level 20 NPC like in OP's hypothetical should be like. They have very specific concerns that eat a lot of their attention, but they have the experience to know how to set solutions to problems in motion, and the capability to get those solutions going. Maybe they are the hero of another story, with incredible feats to their name, but not of the story the PCs are going through.
>>96875853Thy don't for the same reason why glowniggers use groomed mkultra'd scapegoats for "activism" instead of acting themselves in the open. 20th+ level npc are way beyond domain level play, they basically shuffle pawns around.
>>96883086>Oldest loreHe was actively helping catalog the world and holding interviews with powerful people from different places. This was also before he was all powerful as he would be in later incarnations (there's an example of him being taken hostage by bandits, he blames the fact that his new scroll bag has extra straps so his hands got tangled up in it).In the 2e lore most FR fags are familiar with, he shows up in a handful of books as an information dispenser, but if the Dragon articles at the time are to be taken seriously, he spends most of his time on other worlds, only coming back to Faerun when big shit goes down involving Mystra's chosen.In 3e lore he spends all day at his house in the dalelands.In 4e lore...In 5e lore they don't really know what to do with him or any other powerful NPC. Not Elminster related, but I would hate to see how they would handle something like the Eltab adventure or the Duty & Deity adventure with the current writers.
>>96875867fpbp
