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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6782918" data-attributes="member: 82106">Sure, its certainly interesting to think about. I always tend to think of the real world in terms of how we handle different things. Now, super powers would be a little outside of what we experience, but we certainly have people with certain types of skills, etc. I'd think of say NPCs that study magic. They'd be perhaps learning by various means, pacts, research, training in some sort of school, innate talent, etc. They might use a combination of those methods to achieve some effects. They probably wouldn't have much in the way of hit points, they don't know how to fight and they're not bound up in the fate of the world, so they lack 'plot armor' etc. Like a modern expert in some field they would be very knowledgeable, and perhaps QUITE capable in their narrow areas of study. So a guy like that might know how to cast a number of 'utility' spells in AD&D or 5e terms, maybe a cantrip, and perhaps have a very few specific 'specialty' spells, perhaps even of reasonably high level. Such a character wouldn't be an adventurer, they'd be a scholar or advisor, faculty member, crazy guy that lives up on the hill, whatever. In fact AD&D KINDA had that, it was the 'Sage', an NPC that could give advice and perhaps at DM discretion cast certain spells. There were NEVER any rules for this guy in terms of what they could do AFAIK (maybe in a Dragon article WAY back, I'm not sure). Anyway, I'd think that the world would be mostly made up of that sort of people. Warriors would simply be modeled as something like a lower level fighter, trained, but not with the huge hit points of PCs that are fated to do great deeds. Maybe some would have some special attributes along the lines of what some 2e kits grant. Most of these people would have other major focuses, running estates, police functions, social obligations, etc. They might well have certain types of adventures, now and then. There would be political struggles, disasters, wars, crimes, etc where they would ply their various mixes of abilities. Some might have certain thief skills, wilderness survival, tracking, etc stuff that can mostly be modeled by NWP/skill/whatever but some of which might mirror certain class abilities too.I would think these people would be labelled 'warrior', 'thief', 'cleric', 'monk', and a 100 other names, but classed PCs are just examples of extraordinary individuals that arise out of those general types of people, not laws of physics that govern how everyone has to be. Its just WEIRD to think that the world would be made up of people who can only acquire certain specific combinations of abilities in certain patterns, and that entire organizations and social structures would be made up of people with such a narrow templatized skill set and behavior. It wouldn't IMHO be even vaguely similar to the real world, it would be WEIRD AS HELL.</blockquote>

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