Larian used ITEMS instead of levels to power up everyone by end game.

Good quick way NOT to add more levels/spells if your short on time and resources for the game release.

It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..