Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 1923710" data-attributes="member: 20740">Not directly (usually), but they are a useful guideline.Usually by not putting one there in the first place.  If there is one there, it is likely someone just passing through.Because it makes sense.  Given 200 characters, 5 of which are fighters, 1 of which is a cleric, 6 of which are rogues, and 188 of which are commoners, most likely the highest level one is going to be a commoner.  What exactly is your issue with this?I usually just ballpark it.  Most places have about 75% commoners, 15% experts, 5% warriors.  The other 5% is made up of about 50% aristocrats and 40% split about evenly between Fighters, Rogues, and Adepts.  The other 10% is split up about evenly between all the other classes except Druids, Rangers, Monks, and Paladins.  The highest level characters are usually Rogues, Commoners, or Aristocrats.  When story warrents it, this can easily be replaced by Wizards, Clerics, or Fighters (if the place is known for its wizards, its priests, or its army).  Aristocrats are often multiclass as they have time to dabble in many other things.  Fighter, Warrior, Cleric, and Wizard are all common choices, though Clerics tend to only have a few levels in Aristocrat.I ballpark it.  7 is about average, though (that's a max rank, skill focus expert 1, with a Charisma of 12).  If that's what he does for a living, it should be pretty maxed out.  And higher level ones make up for those lower level ones who haven't maxed out.Depends on the size of the town, but I'd usually make them something along the lines of a Commoner 4.  The bully's probably got a day job working some menial labor, but has probably been into quite a few scuffles in his life giving him a higher than normal level.  Smaller towns would warrent lower levels, while larger towns would warrent higher levels (though not much higher, maybe a max of Commoner 4/Warrior 3/Fighter 1).  Ability wise, I would give them about 16 Strength, 10 Dex, 12 Con, 10 Int, 8 Wis, 8 Cha.  Using the 3d6 rolling method, an individual has a 4.6% chance of having a Strength that high, meaning there is probably at least 10 of them in a town of 200.  The strongest ones are the most likely to become bullies, and having a slightly high Constitution would also be normal for a bully.  He's a bully, so I would imagine he's got a somewhat below normal Wisdom and Charisma.  Dex and Int are just average... Improved Grapple would be normal, Str 16, BAB +2, proficient with the Club +5 1d6 x2, +7 to grapple checks.</blockquote>

Verification