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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4504112" data-attributes="member: 710">I liked the 3E demographics chart also, but I begin to wonder - what are these high level NPCs doing in the city? Likewise, it wasn't exactly uncommon for me to use high level classed NPCs instead of monsters - but how did they get there levels, and what are they doing all the time? It especially gets problematic when I use them more like "mooks" - equal level NPCs that block the work for the BBEG - I use them as a guard, but does this even make sense? If you had the choice between working as a guard for a BBEG and to sell items from your NPC wealth and buy a nice house, why wouldn't you prefer that? it might be a bit easier for good NPCs that might have an altruistic motivation, but the good guys are usually not that important...I haven't found a really satisfying approach yet, particularly because I find it hard to ignore the notion that levels stand for training and experience of NPCs and come from similar stuff that the PCs do...</blockquote>