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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5500904" data-attributes="member: 15538"><p>Except they are not different, if you are comparing them to the town sheriff. PCs are not special; it is simply assumed they begin with competencies they need for rough business. "Not just your average turnip farmer" is not a super power or a divine destiny, it's a trait shared by any number of trained knights, professional soldiers, pirates, constables, in addition to any particularly heroic turnip farmers. Published materials are full of NPC fighters and thieves who are distinguished by only one criterion: they have competencies your average Normal Man does not. A thief/rogue is just a guy who can pick pockets and backstab; a fighter can fight pretty well. A turnip farmer does not become a fighter by some kind of magical evolution; every population of turnip farmers of any size contains a few individuals of exceptional capability. Many of these are Warriors (3e) or 1 HD monsters (OD&D or AD&D) but some are simply Fighters, not by dint of divine parentage, extraordinary training, and so forth, but simply by being proficient with several weapons and having an above average ability to implant them in people who upset them.</p></blockquote><p></p>