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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5498144" data-attributes="member: 19675">1) it's not glib to point out I'm using actual rules from rulebooks.2) That the DMG says a sergeant is a 1st level fighter and a "veteran": this tells us ranks/level names aren't mechanics; that D&D terminology may be self-contradictory.  Again, the same book tells us peasants and townsfolk can be classed as well.No...nor is the concept that someone may be a skilled fighter- perhaps as a militia member- and choose not to pursue the adventuring lifestyle.  Or that someone may be a skilled fighter without having fought in battle (morale is an entirely different matter.  My aforementioned buddy who tried out for the Army Rangers was a skilled combatant when he enlisted- his father was a martial artist.In Wales of old, it was law that young men took up the bow before age 10.  In modern Somalia, there are grizzled 15 year old combat vets with AK-47s leading squads of 12 year olds.In both cases, there are similar pressures: if your life expectancy is about 30, you need to start 'em young to get quality adult soldiers.Take another look at that section I quoted- they are "special" as in unusual, yes, but not so far as some assert that having class levels equates with being a "Fantasy Hero."Again, since the DMG is stating that you can give NPCs class levels as DM's discretion, as needed, there is no mechanical linkage between having class levels and being exceptional.(FWIW, that 2Ed source I cited wasn't a module, it was more like a gazetteer, listing city details, important personalities- like Elminster- and each region's armed forces, down to militias, if any.)</blockquote>

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