As I am concerned, the only reason this is relevant is that whole archetypes* of characters are "trap options".

I once made a comment about a story that had a pretty crazy power curve that as crazy as it was you could stat one of the most powerful people in the setting as a mid-high level D&D wizard. Any you would need 60 levels of monk or something to stat their partner.

Does anyone have any other insights about how this topic is relevant to the thread? If not do you think we could wind this aside down soon? I don't mean to be a kill-joy but its been about 4 pages or so since this got started.

* With occasional narrow exceptions.