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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5598168" data-attributes="member: 92511">I just want to address this briefly if I might. Yes, it does seem they are all fighters and clerics...but, that's what fits/makes sense for this area.As stated, there is next to no crime, so I nixed the idea of a low level thief or two. They wouldn't have anything to do...and in a town where pretty much everyone knows everyone (or thinks they know), they'd be easily caught and expunged.Similarly, while the game world of Orea is "magic heavy" as a whole, in that arcane magic is a known fact of life, it is not universally "common" from place to place. Welford is not a particularly "magic heavy" community. 1) because they are fairly secluded and 2)because they are not so far removed from a couple of very highly magical areas...those interested in the sorcerous arts have places they can (and want to) go someplace "better" than Welford to engage in their studies.So, even adding the single low-level mage in the apothecary was a bit of a stretch (I reasoned he was a "dabbler", who after some limited adventuring decided it wasn't for him and was happy to resettle into quiet -read as "safe/monster-free"- hometown life).What are important to a simple primarily farming/fishing community? Personal defense/security...which we've established is not so huge a concern for Welford...and meeting the "spiritual -which often translate to temporal- needs" of its inhabitants. The leader of the clergy is a priest of the goddess of nature, the harvest and weather...the most important things to the majority of the local community.The other deities with clerics are for healing, knowledge/the mind (relevant to/for the Green Witch), and the god of music.Though no technically "classed" clerics exist for them, reverence is also paid through the seasons to the deities of: water (i.e. lakes), guardianship, the sun, the patron god of smiths & craftsmen (including brewing/wine-making/distilling) and the goddess of love and spring (twin sister of the god of music/gambling/autumn).So, at least for the region of the Laklans, and the hamlet of Welford specifically, fighters and clerics (possibly a smattering of rangers and druids) are what are going to be found significantly more than other classes...they are/that's what "makes sense" for that community.Now, a similarly sized town in the magocratic realms of R'Hath, out of the 15 classed NPCs, you can bet there would be several more mages than clerics or fighters.It's a matter, to my mind, of the internal logic of the world...even if it doesn't provide the widest possible options for the PCs to encounter.Obviously, a larger town or city, with many more types of people, businesses and organizations to be found, the classes would be much more diverse. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Just how I look at it.--Steel Dragons</blockquote>

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