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Xeviat

Dungeon Mistress, she/her
Regarding trained vs untrained hirelings: who is an untrained hireling? Do NPCs not get background tool proficiencies? Shouldn't every adult be trained in some tool or useful skill? Or is that it, untrained is level 0, hasn't even gotten their background yet?
 

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Regarding trained vs untrained hirelings: who is an untrained hireling? Do NPCs not get background tool proficiencies? Shouldn't every adult be trained in some tool or useful skill? Or is that it, untrained is level 0, hasn't even gotten their background yet?
Backgrounds are for player characters. NPCs get whatever stats and abilities the DM thinks is appropriate, which for NPCs specifically labelled as "untrained" might be no proficiencies at all.

Untrained characters might get some proficiencies for verisimilitude's sake, but nothing useful on the labor market, so they have to take unskilled work. For example a farmers 3rd son having proficiency in plows but having to move to the city to look for work since his brothers inherit the farm.
 

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