I honestly thought it would be a less subjective method to get a feel for power level in PF, but it seems just as useless as other comparisons. Especially for the two examples I gave.
Perhaps some more tame classic heroes? Odysseus, Perseus, the Fellowship of the Ring, etc?
Just going by Wikipedia, Perseus slew a Medusa (CR7,3200), king (CR14,38400), Cetus (CR13,25600), noble scion? (CR2,600), and then more stuff. It hard to tell what level his career started, since anybody could get away with a coup de grace against any creature, and everything following was a result of him having Medusa's head. But with the XP total of 67800 (assuming Medium track and ignoring the one level at a time rule) he would be 8th.
I don't know where I'm going with this...
And the heroes of myth would, of course, be the survivors of their encounters. Nobody mentions those who died.
Orfamay Quest wrote:
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Authors don’t design their characters around the class progressions of the core D&D classes. Take, for example, a character who can assume an ethereal state without casting a spell. The only way to do that in D&D, using only the core classes, is to be a 19th level monk. But if that’s the only special ability the character in question has, it would be completely nonsensical to model them as a 19th level monk – they don’t have any of the plethora of other abilities such a monk possesses. What you’re looking at is a character with a unique class progression or possibly a prestige class. Or maybe a racial ability.
What about the characters that do have to use those rules, at least as a guideline? Does Drizzt level at the same rate as everyone? Settings like FR, Dragonlance, other stuff I also haven't gotten around to reading?