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<blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 8829543" data-attributes="member: 6690965">Not to speak for anyone else, but I don't think that's the point being made at all. The argument is that whatever rules you make up for this system should ideally apply to everyone in the setting, as appropriate. If this is a resource that's unique to 1 chosen individual, it really doesn't matter, but if it's applicable to a set of people, it ought to function the same way for NPCs/PCs.The argument being that there shouldn't exist systems that PCs categorically can't interact with. If you have an elven seer that can channel her past lives for skill bonuses, then whatever diegetic process allowed for that system should be available for a PC to interact with. Maybe it's just a &quot;elves over age 700 develop X ability&quot; sidebar, and your 80 year old PC can reasonably expect to do that later if the campaign has a massive time skip,&nbsp; or it's a domain power of the elven god of memory, and if someone statted up such a cleric after a character death, you'd explain the mechanic.Given 5e's design norms, it doesn't even matter if the ability isn't perfect represented as a PC class domain power in the NPC's statblock, so much that based on that description, a PC cleric can expect a similar ability, even if the the exact implementation isn't the same.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pedantic, post: 8829543, member: 6690965"] Not to speak for anyone else, but I don't think that's the point being made at all. The argument is that whatever rules you make up for this system should ideally apply to everyone in the setting, as appropriate. If this is a resource that's unique to 1 chosen individual, it really doesn't matter, but if it's applicable to a set of people, it ought to function the same way for NPCs/PCs. The argument being that there shouldn't exist systems that PCs categorically can't interact with. If you have an elven seer that can channel her past lives for skill bonuses, then whatever diegetic process allowed for that system should be available for a PC to interact with. Maybe it's just a "elves over age 700 develop X ability" sidebar, and your 80 year old PC can reasonably expect to do that later if the campaign has a massive time skip, or it's a domain power of the elven god of memory, and if someone statted up such a cleric after a character death, you'd explain the mechanic. Given 5e's design norms, it doesn't even matter if the ability isn't perfect represented as a PC class domain power in the NPC's statblock, so much that based on that description, a PC cleric can expect a similar ability, even if the the exact implementation isn't the same. [/QUOTE]

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