Powerleveling is a common occurance in Fantasy Fiction

[MagpieRockyl]

If you are an avid reader, casual reader, or obsessive reader of Fantasy Fiction you would agree that in many many instances of more experienced (higher level) characters setting out on quests and adventures with new and inexperienced

Lets use Lord of the Rings as an example - a well known and widely read series.

If we were to translate the main characters of this series to Everquest Frodo and his three Hobbit companions are about level 1 or 2. Of course as they go along they may grow in their abilities etc, but who comes to their aid on many occasions? Aragorn in Bree - a 45(ish) warrior, Arwen just before they reach Rivendel, Gandalf and the actual fellowship of the ring through Moria and thereafter.

Adventuring with variety of classes and races is a very fantasy experience - something well known in Everquest, but so is the complexity of secret strength and a diversity in experience within the companions. When you come to Everquest, don't reject others because they are too powerful for your experience, and don't reject them because they are weak and unable to contribute. That is just as integral to a great story and adventure than anything else. Don't just play the game - play for the story and adventure that you are experiencing.

-cawcaw

[Baler]

I'm going to request Lore Masters to review this for validity.

[Bboboo]

Neat

[skarlorn]

10/5

[LulzSect©]

https://i.imgur.com/7Ew28so.gif

[Foxplay]

Frodo was also twinked to shit by his rich uncle? (I think Bilbo was his uncle) I mean c'mon enchanted 1hs and mithril tunic? He definitely is not ALS material

[Canelek]

You sir, are a fine and excellent hobbit. May your hobbit hole always be stuffed!

[Vheran]

Frodo was so bad at his class though, he was constantly being saved.

[Wonkie]

Frodo was also twinked to shit by his rich uncle? (I think Bilbo was his uncle) I mean c'mon enchanted 1hs and mithril tunic? He definitely is not ALS material

STING IS PIERCING, YOU CASUAL

[ZiggyTheMuss]

Hey Luke Skywalker got PLed by Ben Kenobi and his homies too.

[zodium]

Adventuring with variety of classes and races is a very fantasy experience - something well known in Everquest, but so is the complexity of secret strength and a diversity in experience within the companions. When you come to Everquest, don't reject others because they are too powerful for your experience, and don't reject them because they are weak and unable to contribute. That is just as integral to a great story and adventure than anything else. Don't just play the game - play for the story and adventure that you are experiencing.

https://i.imgur.com/j1Giddy.gif

[Foxplay]

Hey Luke Skywalker got PLed by Ben Kenobi and his homies too.

Meanwhile Rey just paid for a character level up coin from the cash shop and is good at everything for no reason

[sox7d]

did this guy just call aragorn a warrior

[zodium]

I don't remember Aragorn casting any spells.

maybe he's a level 8 ranger?

[indiscriminate_hater]

so what you're saying is - shit's classic?

[Sinistria]

You sir, are a fine and excellent hobbit. May your hobbit hole always be stuffed!

OMG

Getting pictures of... Noooooo


actually:

Frodo never experienced anything.
He was just sitting in front of his hole, smoking pot, calling pizza delivery all day long and hallucinated.

[Canelek]

Frodo was always keen to pretend to read by a certain roadside willow. He knew that eventually, things would work themselves out. Happenstance brought that silly old wizard along. And lust.

[tarkhis]

If you are an avid reader, casual reader, or obsessive reader of Fantasy Fiction you would agree that in many many instances of more experienced (higher level) characters setting out on quests and adventures with new and inexperienced

Lets use Lord of the Rings as an example - a well known and widely read series.

If we were to translate the main characters of this series to Everquest Frodo and his three Hobbit companions are about level 1 or 2. Of course as they go along they may grow in their abilities etc, but who comes to their aid on many occasions? Aragorn in Bree - a 45(ish) warrior, Arwen just before they reach Rivendel, Gandalf and the actual fellowship of the ring through Moria and thereafter.

Adventuring with variety of classes and races is a very fantasy experience - something well known in Everquest, but so is the complexity of secret strength and a diversity in experience within the companions. When you come to Everquest, don't reject others because they are too powerful for your experience, and don't reject them because they are weak and unable to contribute. That is just as integral to a great story and adventure than anything else. Don't just play the game - play for the story and adventure that you are experiencing.

-cawcaw


Avid reader??? seems more like a movie watcher, Glorfindel carried Frodo to the river not Arwen , she was Peter Jackson's expansion of her role and only did this in the movies.

Seemingly as they were all grouped together each time I doubt the hobbits received any xp until the fellowship broke apart. It was more like a high level just buffing them and escorting them across a few zones.

[solleks]

Aragorn has lots of sneaking and tracking abilities, I think he's a ranger with his spells disabled

[Sinistria]

Seemingly as they were all grouped together each time I doubt the hobbits received any xp until the fellowship broke apart. It was more like a high level just buffing them and escorting them across a few zones.

Plus:

Within his newbeness Frodo almost trained a whole bunch of cutthroat derwishes in the prancing pony in Bree.
Frodo taunted (put on the ring) the mobs (Ringwraiths) on Weathertop.
Frodo tried to attack (lifting his sword / no "c" con check on the Ringwraiths) at Ford of Bruinen.

Beeing Aragorn or Gandalf bringing some Hobbits to Rivendell or even farer must be like run as an Iksar Necro from Cabilis to Rivervale on lvl 1 trying to do sightseeing in all towns of Norrath

[Sinistria]

The hobbits literally trained spectres to docks!

They tried to fear kite the hobbits but they glitched on the boat to Overthere...

[Cen]

The thing with gandalf though is he aint actually magic. At least ive [got a lead pipe in my hand that says this **** aint magic].

[Gilder]

Aragorn was undoubtedly a Ranger.

Arwen? Maybe a Pally?

Merry was probably a Bard, always singing, lifting the group's spirit, but still a pain in the ass at times.

Faramir/Gimly were the warriors of the group.

Elrond... cleric maybe? For healing weak ass Frodo?

[LulzSect©]

‘Do you really mean that Strider is one of the people of the old Kings?’ said Frodo in wonder. ‘I thought they had all vanished long ago. I thought he was only a Ranger.’

‘Only a Ranger!’ cried Gandalf. ‘My dear Frodo, that is just what the Rangers are: the last remnant in the North of the great people, the Men of the West. They have helped me before; and I shall need their help in the days to come; for we have reached Rivendell, but the Ring is not yet at rest.’ – Many Meetings, The Fellowship of the Ring

just because EverQuest Rangers' cast spells doesn't mean Aragorn isn't a ranger class :rolleyes:

when I think of a ranger i think of archer/tracker/bowazon class

[zodium]

lord of the rings is a bad series btw

like the venn diagram of people who like LOTR and people who like anime is basically a circle

QED

[MagpieRockyl]

Aragorn was a ducking warrior, not a ranger. Just because Tolkien calls him a 'ranger' doesn't make him a 'ranger' in EQ.

Proof? Rangers can't wear PLATE


GIT GEWD

[Raavak]

In first first Gor book, earthling Tarl Cabot, a college professor, is trained in melee combat and becomes possibly the best swordsman in the land (within a couple chapters no less).

[Moerne]

This seems like an appropriate place to put this, one of my old favorites:

https://stupidevilbastard.com/2002/10/if_lord_of_the_rings_were_everquest/


SCENE: Rivendell. Elrond is studying.

GANDALF: Ach! Damn it!

ELROND: Gandalf! Where did you come from? … You’re naked.

GANDALF: Stupid halflings who can’t play their class, that’s what happened.

ELROND: What? Where?

GANDALF: Moria. We were in the safe hall at Balin’s Tomb and Aragorn was going to pull some orcs to clear the way to the zoneout.

ELROND: Which halfling messed it up? Frodo?

GANDALF: No, it was Pippin. I didn’t even want to bring him along but Frodo did insist. Aragorn was going to pull some orcs but out comes Pippin to ‘see what Aragorn was doing’ and manages to aggro half the zone.

ELROND: So you got wiped out by a horde of orcs? Yuck.

GANDALF: Oh, no. They were green to most of us, so we cut through them all right. I was impressed by Legolas’ bow crits. But then the Cave Troll got aggroed.

ELROND: But there were nine of you, you could have handled the cave troll.

GANDALF: Oh, and we did. Except Frodo didn’t know how to manage aggro properly. The troll started beating on him.

ELROND: Oh, no. Poor Frodo.

GANDALF: No, actually, Frodo was fine. He had a mithril chain tunic on.

ELROND: Jeez, just because he’s friends with Bilbo, does Bilbo have to twink him like that?

GANDALF: Yeah, no kidding. So the troll ran and Pippin of course forgets to snare.

ELROND: Aragorn’s a ranger, why didn’t he snare?

GANDALF: He was our main tank and was busy keeping the orcs aggroed on him. Pippin was just sleeping on the job. So the troll ran, and before we finally cut him down, he chain aggroed the Balrog.

ELROND: Oh, no. Stupid halfling dr00ds.

GANDALF: Yeah. So naturally, I decided to take it on the chin. I told everyone to run and I tried to hold off the Balrog by rooting him.

ELROND: And he got you.

GANDALF: No, actually, I had my shield up, and I just chain-nuked him.

ELROND: You SOLOED the Balrog? Wow.

GANDALF: Yeah, one hell of an XP hit too. But then when he fell, I turned and slipped off the ledge. I 10Ked when I hit the bottom of the Balrog pit. Didn’t even have chance to loot his corpse. And there went the XP from the orcs, the troll, AND the Balrog. Stupid Verant.

ELROND: Your corpse is in the bottom of the Balrog pit?

GANDALF: Yeah. But no worries, I think I know a way to drag it out of there.

ELROND: That’s good.

GANDALF: So, can I bum a SoW off you for a CR? I want to get back there before the Balrog respawns.

ELROND: This is Rivendell. We’re high elves. The wood elves are in Lothlorien.

GANDALF: Nadgers. Which is where we were headed in the first place. Oh well, I’m a wizard at least, and there’s a portal not too far from there.

ELROND: Good luck on your CR. Why were you hanging out with those noobs anyway?

GANDALF: I promised Frodo I’d powerlevel him in exchange for him completing the Cracks of Doom quest with me. He has the quest piece – the One Ring.

ELROND: That’s NO DROP, isn’t it.

GANDALF: Yeah.

ELROND: What do you get for completing that quest?

GANDALF: Robe of the White and Staff of the White. Those would be serious upgrades to my Grey robe and staff. I’ve had this gear for way too many levels anyway.

ELROND: Nice.

GANDALF: Anyway, I’d better go. Do you think you could get someone to go to the Moria zone to rez me once I get my corpse pulled there?

ELROND: I’ll try to find a guildie.

GANDALF: Thanks.

[radda]

I like this thread,
Wish I could chime in

[LulzSect©]

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[MagpieRockyl]

https://i.imgur.com/LZl9H.gif

Very relevant

[Foopster]

Aragorn is actually a ranger of the north. He was really good at healing, he waited until Frodo was unconscious to land them heals.

[maskedmelonpai]

aside from a single item from his grandfather, Richard Rahl pretty much earned his own place. He sorta started at liek level 10 i think. wasn't completely useless.

Raif Severence also earned his own (no plvling) and omgosh was it brutal.

Same goes for Jack (can't remember his last name :c). he was a complete nub.

the dude in wheel of time was definitely plvled though and same goes for drizzt (delf training), butt knot the rest of the icewind adventurers.

I think it a toss up tbh. difinitely not unheard of though.

[skarlorn]

aside from a single item from his grandfather, Richard Rahl pretty much earned his own place. He sorta started at liek level 10 i think. wasn't completely useless.


this is total bologna!!!!!!!!!!! NO THANK YOU!!!! Richard had a CONFESSOR to PL him and was PLd by the rapist BDSM woman and he also was given SWORD OF TRUTH e z pz

[Doil_Boil]

aside from a single item from his grandfather, Richard Rahl pretty much earned his own place. He sorta started at liek level 10 i think. wasn't completely useless.

Raif Severence also earned his own (no plvling) and omgosh was it brutal.

Same goes for Jack (can't remember his last name :c). he was a complete nub.

the dude in wheel of time was definitely plvled though and same goes for drizzt (delf training), butt knot the rest of the icewind adventurers.

I think it a toss up tbh. difinitely not unheard of though.

How was Rand PLed in the wheel of time?

[maskedmelonpai]

this is total bologna!!!!!!!!!!! NO THANK YOU!!!! Richard had a CONFESSOR to PL him and was PLd by the rapist BDSM woman and he also was given SWORD OF TRUTH e z pz

confessor a one trick pony though. she use her power and flops. The mord-sith almost destroyed him and beat the poo outta him for liek months I thought. wouldn't consider that power leveling. i acknowledged the sword ^^ grandpa didn't hang around to protect him though liek the hobbits.

[maskedmelonpai]

How was Rand PLed in the wheel of time?

by the magic lady and her warder whatever dude. he'd been eaten by hafmens if the.g. didn't come.

[LulzSect©]

Let’s give Richard Rahl a little credit, he did eventually have to reroll untwinked in a foreign land after all

[skarlorn]

confessor a one trick pony though. she use her power and flops. The mord-sith almost destroyed him and beat the poo outta him for liek months I thought. wouldn't consider that power leveling. i acknowledged the sword ^^ grandpa didn't hang around to protect him though liek the hobbits.

ya but a one trick spell caster who goes OOM after permanently enslaving a person is still OP. and the mord-sith did fuck him up but he benefits directly from getting BDSMd for his entier campaign after the fact.

ok i will admit he handles himself competently from the beginning. and yea but gandalf also leaves Frogo and the Hombets. he basically doesn't PL them until battle for helms dead.

[skarlorn]

i will FIGHT you about this!!!1

[maskedmelonpai]

okay, but i get a handicap because I am half retarded. i feel liek reading more now. gonna think about this more ^^

[maskedmelonpai]

Okay, first encounter Richard saves CONFESSOR from quad chasing here. she charms one, but then is totally useless and iirc, her pet gets pwnd, leaving Richard (a guide) to deal with a battle hardened Daharan soldier.

THEN he gets sword of truth and tries to kill a tree, butt it stops him.

they leave whateverthatplaceiscalled (westland?) and try to cross the barrier where they encounter another dharan whomsts head Richard must cleave. meanwhile the sword begins exerting its pull in his mind and only later do he learn it too could consume him.

more stuff happens, grandpa wizard not around.

Richard gets captured by Denna whomst beats the shit outta him with electric dildo thing. he partitions his mind to endure the torture (beginning to activate his magical gift) and gets the satisfaction of kicking the little princes' face in, before Deanna beats the shit out of him more and transports him to dhara, to tag team him with the short chubby mord sith.

That goes on (basically him being useless lie k frodo) before he kills his dad and then has to make friends with a dragon and rescue.it's baby from a bunch guars or whatever they were called in order to save the world. I actually don't remember if the Dragon thing is before or after killing his dad, but point is, he goes through all that shit and has to ensure it mostly on his own.

Twinkies with a soul devouring sword (which he is the first to overcome in lie k a thousand years or something) - check
Accompanied a bit by pretty girl who goes .from OP to liability in a instant - check
Does pretty much everything else in his own - MATE


*nods politely*

[skarlorn]

rtemember the scene in book 2 where kahlan gets fingered in the pit?

[maskedmelonpai]

yeah, vaguely. Been a while since I read them. I remember that one royal lady goes mad down there. I thought Kuala charmed one of the dudes, but he wasn't able to take all the rest despite destroying a lot. and remember (Richards half brother?) The corrupt cleric doing see if stuff. honestly gonna hafta read them all again now.


EDIT not saying khalan ain't powerful, just that she don't really plvl richard ^^

[LulzSect©]

i was real innocent still when i read that shit

didnt make it past pillars

dont think i can reread BDSM fantasy fanfiction series ever again

[Wonkie]

Richard Rahl made up his own class(war wizard). its hard not to be op when you can do all type of magic by birth("the gift") and noone else can.

aradune plays a war wizard in pantheon.

they're not twinks cuz rick is fiction and brad is fat

[Sinistria]

This seems like an appropriate place to put this, one of my old favorites:

https://stupidevilbastard.com/2002/10/if_lord_of_the_rings_were_everquest/


SCENE: Rivendell. Elrond is studying.

GANDALF: Ach! Damn it!

ELROND: Gandalf! Where did you come from? … You’re naked.

GANDALF: Stupid halflings who can’t play their class, that’s what happened.

ELROND: What? Where?

GANDALF: Moria. We were in the safe hall at Balin’s Tomb and Aragorn was going to pull some orcs to clear the way to the zoneout.

ELROND: Which halfling messed it up? Frodo?

GANDALF: No, it was Pippin. I didn’t even want to bring him along but Frodo did insist. Aragorn was going to pull some orcs but out comes Pippin to ‘see what Aragorn was doing’ and manages to aggro half the zone.

ELROND: So you got wiped out by a horde of orcs? Yuck.

GANDALF: Oh, no. They were green to most of us, so we cut through them all right. I was impressed by Legolas’ bow crits. But then the Cave Troll got aggroed.

ELROND: But there were nine of you, you could have handled the cave troll.

GANDALF: Oh, and we did. Except Frodo didn’t know how to manage aggro properly. The troll started beating on him.

ELROND: Oh, no. Poor Frodo.

GANDALF: No, actually, Frodo was fine. He had a mithril chain tunic on.

ELROND: Jeez, just because he’s friends with Bilbo, does Bilbo have to twink him like that?

GANDALF: Yeah, no kidding. So the troll ran and Pippin of course forgets to snare.

ELROND: Aragorn’s a ranger, why didn’t he snare?

GANDALF: He was our main tank and was busy keeping the orcs aggroed on him. Pippin was just sleeping on the job. So the troll ran, and before we finally cut him down, he chain aggroed the Balrog.

ELROND: Oh, no. Stupid halfling dr00ds.

GANDALF: Yeah. So naturally, I decided to take it on the chin. I told everyone to run and I tried to hold off the Balrog by rooting him.

ELROND: And he got you.

GANDALF: No, actually, I had my shield up, and I just chain-nuked him.

ELROND: You SOLOED the Balrog? Wow.

GANDALF: Yeah, one hell of an XP hit too. But then when he fell, I turned and slipped off the ledge. I 10Ked when I hit the bottom of the Balrog pit. Didn’t even have chance to loot his corpse. And there went the XP from the orcs, the troll, AND the Balrog. Stupid Verant.

ELROND: Your corpse is in the bottom of the Balrog pit?

GANDALF: Yeah. But no worries, I think I know a way to drag it out of there.

ELROND: That’s good.

GANDALF: So, can I bum a SoW off you for a CR? I want to get back there before the Balrog respawns.

ELROND: This is Rivendell. We’re high elves. The wood elves are in Lothlorien.

GANDALF: Nadgers. Which is where we were headed in the first place. Oh well, I’m a wizard at least, and there’s a portal not too far from there.

ELROND: Good luck on your CR. Why were you hanging out with those noobs anyway?

GANDALF: I promised Frodo I’d powerlevel him in exchange for him completing the Cracks of Doom quest with me. He has the quest piece – the One Ring.

ELROND: That’s NO DROP, isn’t it.

GANDALF: Yeah.

ELROND: What do you get for completing that quest?

GANDALF: Robe of the White and Staff of the White. Those would be serious upgrades to my Grey robe and staff. I’ve had this gear for way too many levels anyway.

ELROND: Nice.

GANDALF: Anyway, I’d better go. Do you think you could get someone to go to the Moria zone to rez me once I get my corpse pulled there?

ELROND: I’ll try to find a guildie.

GANDALF: Thanks.

I laughed so much, not hard at all to imagine they realy talked like this.
Thank you for this one :D:D:D

[Gilder]

https://i.imgur.com/LZl9H.gif

Lmaoooo this LotR gif goes on forever, but so worth it. 10/10

[clevergirl]

If you are an avid reader, casual reader, or obsessive reader of Fantasy Fiction you would agree that in many many instances of more experienced (higher level) characters setting out on quests and adventures with new and inexperienced

Lets use Lord of the Rings as an example - a well known and widely read series.

If we were to translate the main characters of this series to Everquest Frodo and his three Hobbit companions are about level 1 or 2. Of course as they go along they may grow in their abilities etc, but who comes to their aid on many occasions? Aragorn in Bree - a 45(ish) warrior, Arwen just before they reach Rivendel, Gandalf and the actual fellowship of the ring through Moria and thereafter.

Adventuring with variety of classes and races is a very fantasy experience - something well known in Everquest, but so is the complexity of secret strength and a diversity in experience within the companions. When you come to Everquest, don't reject others because they are too powerful for your experience, and don't reject them because they are weak and unable to contribute. That is just as integral to a great story and adventure than anything else. Don't just play the game - play for the story and adventure that you are experiencing.

-cawcaw

I think everyone should be able to be in the same group and get their fair share of EXP and there shouldn't be level restrictions. This would make the game a lot more friendlier.