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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5193379" data-attributes="member: 2067">Not sure I grok what you're saying, but using Rule 0 doesn't imply that the rules you're not using suck.For one, they could just be more useful for DMs who aren't you. It'd be wrong to assume that just because I don't need detailed NPC rules that nobody who plays D&D needs detailed NPC rules.Indeed, I liked 3e's NPC rules, because I liked the world they implied, where normal monarchs were crafty enough, and where the Greatest Queen in the World was entirely likely to be a mythic creature in her own right, not just some frail old lady, due to the unique problems of being the Greatest Queen in the World in a world filled with monsters.However, I personally didn't really stat out 10th-level Aristocrats very often, mostly because I'm improv-heavy (my PC's mostly wound up fighting monsters rather than engaging in protracted political games with NPC's just 'cuz I didn't have easy NPC stat blocks, though everyone seemed to have enough fun wailing on monsters, anyway <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). I think a weakness of 4e's "just use fiat" method is that it doesn't provide me with the same baseline. I can't say "okay, your basic ruling monarch as a Diplomacy of X, and your epic-hero monarch has a Diplomacy of Z, so this monarch should probably have a Diplomacy of Y,"  because monarchs don't have Diplomacy at all unless the PC's are somehow making use of the skill.</blockquote>

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