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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blargney the second" data-source="post: 1178264" data-attributes="member: 14678">For what it's worth, I don't think that the convention of "most people are first level" makes any sense.  You can't *do* anything at first level!The assumption I follow is that children, initiates, and apprentices are 1st level.  Journeymen, adolescents, and mediocre businessmen are 2nd level.  Fully-trained adults, including guards, artisans, farmers, etc are 3rd level.  Leaders and exceptional people are 4th level or higher.  (By consequence, humanoids have similar class levels up to 3 hit die or more.  I like using this class levels aspect of D&D3!)Depending on the context of your army, you will have many different options:Conscripts:  Commoner/Expert 3, or 2-3 if they are drafting teenagers.Civil Militia and Guards:  Mixture of Commoner/Expert/Warrior 3Standing Army Soldiers:  Warrior 3Non-com leaders:  Warrior/Fighter 3-4Officers:  Warrior/Fighter/Aristocrat 3-4+ depending on number of ranks in army and size of armyCommander:  Warrior/Fighter/Aristocrat/Prestige Classes/Whatever 4-6+ depending on number of officers and size of armyThen there are all the different roles within the army:Scouts:  Warrior/Expert/Ranger 3Healers:  Expert/Adept/Cleric 3Arctillery (Mages!):  Adept/Wizard/Sorceror 3Support personnel:  Commoner/Expert 2-3Hope this helps!-blarg</blockquote>