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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kaomera" data-source="post: 3194524" data-attributes="member: 38357">Well, on the one hand, I'm not really trying to make the PCs "chosen, special people" in the way that I think you mean. PCs have an advantage in their importance to the game, because they're basically what the game is about. That doesn't have to mean that they get to "break the rules", or at least not as compared to important PCs. The average peasant, yeah, but I want to put the PCs (eventually, at least) on the same level as at least some of the "big time" NPCs (in terms of overall impact on the setting), instead of every merchant who hires them having a dozen+ levels of Rogue (or Cleric, or whatever).Again, I'm not suggesting that there won't be NPCs who will be equal or greater than the PCs. However, when it comes time for the PCs to, let's say, go slay an Ogre, I'd expect that there's a reason that they are the ones who do so, as opposed to local Lords, etc. The PCs being nutjobs who do this sort of stuff for a living is the usual reason I've encountered, not that they're somehow fated to do so. IMHO, if the local Lord has say a level or two of Fighter and ten levels of Noble, rather than just ten levels of Fighter, then that supports this idea. Either way the Lord could most likely just waltz in and slaughter the monster, but with the NPC levels he has better things to do with his time.Does that make sense, or am I missing something? I think where I may have screwed this up is in describing the importance of NPCs (or their ability to take PC levels, at least) in terms of being "on-screen". I'm really just looking for an excuse to use the NPC classes more, as opposed to every character having PC classes, no matter how much or little sense it makes. Maybe that's not very widespread and I've just played in some odd games, in any case it's something I try to do anyway, but I've never really set out to put it in words before. And I do think that it will lead to more NPCs who don't have any PC class levels. I'm pretty happy if it ends up without a dozen or so other adventuring parties running around parallel to the PCs, but that's just my preference.</blockquote>

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