Talk:Overlord Volume 10/@comment-77.180.206.222-20160620153014/@comment-70.190.216.70-20160620202519

I think all of you are missing the fact that Yggdrasil levels are way different than the standard Japanese RPG levels everyone has gotten used to. Ainz is not a level 100 Overlord. In fact he is only a level 5 Overlord. The 100 levels referred to is the sum total of all the Racial and Job levels he has. His highest level seems to be a level 15 Skeleton Mage followed by Level 10 Elder Lich (both Racial levels) and level 10 Necromancer and level 10 Ruler of Death (Job levels). What other jobs and racial levels he has to make up the total of 100 hasn't been yet disclosed as far as I can tell. That said there does seem to be some inconsistency in the way the author refers to levels as even the weakest Overlord is supposed to be the equivalent of a Level 90 NPC. It may be that he started off as a weak level one 1 Skeleton Mage and when he reaches a certain number of overall levels he can choose another more powerful race/job to add to his existing. So at some point he was able to add Elder Lich levels and when he reached a total of 90 levels he was able to add Overlord as I very much doubt any game would allow a newbie to start off as the equivalent of a level 90 character.

In addtion, I don't think stats go up automatically by a certain number of points when a new level is reached. Take a look at the Lizardmen levels/stats and compare them to the Nazarick levels/stats and its hard to make any kind of correlation between level and stats. Yes the Nazarick stats are higher as their levels are higher but their stats are not 5 times higher than the Lizardmen (Zaryusu has a total of 20 job and race levels). It's likely that you can raise your stats through quests and rare magic items but I don't think its automatic.

In fact the Yggdrasil game system has more similarities to the very first D&D rules where the highest level was like 9 or 10 if I remember correctly. D&D eventually raised most levels to 18+ (with the exceptions of monk and druid) but even in their first Advanced D&D rules, levels over 20 were generally reserved for major gods with demigods in the 15 range. I also saw a character alignment chart with 9 alignments just like in D&D with each Overlord character filling in certain spots. Sure there are a lot of differences as well, but it kind of struck me how different the Yggdrasil gaming systems was compared to most Japanese RPGs.