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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meadred" data-source="post: 1760301" data-attributes="member: 23833">In quite a lot of fantasy novels, the hero(es) begin as ordinary people, often commoners, and as circumstance or fate have it, they go adventuring and turn into heroes of renown.For some time I have been thinking about starting a new campaign where all PCs are youngsters, coming from the same village in the middle of nowhere. To reinforce the feel of the PCs being "ordinary" people forced into an adventuring life, which will lead to them becoming heores, I have been pondering to force the PCs to begin with a level in one of the NPC classes from the DMG. The main problem with this is that it severely limits spell casters as they "loose" spell casting levels by taking some other class. Also, most of the NPC classes are rather weak. I'm been looking into the Unlikely Heroes series by Plot Device, which are very nice indeed, and also the apprentice level rules from the DMG, but I haven't reached any conclusions yet.So, has anyone on this forum tried something like this before? If so, what's your experience? Also, has anyone tinkered with "converting" levels in the Adept class to Cleric or Sorcerer, for example? Cheers,Meadred</blockquote>