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<blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6262044" data-attributes="member: 3192"><p>I agree that they should get the same abilities by race and class and be open to the same economy of items, dungeon treasures, monsters to fight, and so on. But NPCs are only and ever going to behave as the rules have defined them to behave. PCs are the results of people playing the game. That doesn't mean this necessarily results in more or less powerful characters (by whatever metric is being used), but NPCs are always going to be a game resource whereas a PC has a Player there to brainstorm with the other players. More people is always better IMO.</p><p></p><p>Also, I've been in a campaign where all monsters received 50% the XP PCs receive, which made NPCs slower to advance. So typically they were older when they did so, but then the PCs tended to screw around a lot more. Maybe that was the reason for the rule? I don't know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="howandwhy99, post: 6262044, member: 3192"] I agree that they should get the same abilities by race and class and be open to the same economy of items, dungeon treasures, monsters to fight, and so on. But NPCs are only and ever going to behave as the rules have defined them to behave. PCs are the results of people playing the game. That doesn't mean this necessarily results in more or less powerful characters (by whatever metric is being used), but NPCs are always going to be a game resource whereas a PC has a Player there to brainstorm with the other players. More people is always better IMO. Also, I've been in a campaign where all monsters received 50% the XP PCs receive, which made NPCs slower to advance. So typically they were older when they did so, but then the PCs tended to screw around a lot more. Maybe that was the reason for the rule? I don't know. [/QUOTE]
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