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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 5708817" data-attributes="member: 3192">In my OD&D game both class names and class level names are part of the map known by NPCs, but some know more than others.  Class names are known in most every game I've played in. "We need a cleric" for example. Class level names are used by NPCs when those NPCs know the difference and seek out the High Priest at the cathedral to raise the dead rather than the acolyte who tends the local shrine.I don't, but there may be some who do.They know when they are level drained. When they decline in their ability to perform their class. Level-based advancement is sort of like punctuated evolution. An aging runner can tell they have lost a step. And when titles are involved it typically comes with a demotion to a level of current capability. More directly, the players know when the character has leveled up. The character knows he or she can do stuff they weren't able to before, whether in their training or by doing so explicitly.I don't think the advancement is grasped immediately or so discretely. There are spells M-Us can't manage to learn earlier in their advancement and others they can. They can always try and learn whatever spells they find. Even players can learn by practice what a spell's level may be. It doesn't have to be expressed directly.This is all learned through trial and error and play of the game. So while a character may not know certain statistics, or a player may not know quite what they mean, both may increase their understanding through play.</blockquote>

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