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<blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 1808823" data-attributes="member: 24969">Here's how I'd explain it, but I have strange ideas on NPCs and experience. Basically, I give everybody, PCs included, &quot;Daily XP' which is experience for the trivial stuff in life. Experience for accomplishing the goal of living from one day and into the next. It amounts to about 1/2 an XP per day. This makes it easy to figure out that the 45 year old blacksmith or farmer that is sitting in the in is probalby 3rd level and gives a good indication of what his skill levels are. If they're movers and shakers of the area like the head of the town guard or local leader, they may get an experience point per day (This is what I give PCs, which helps with the &quot;I'm 50 XP short of next level so i go kill rats in the sewer problem. Instead they just train for two months and they get the XP.), making him 5th level. This would put a 300 year old elf who is such a leader at about 15th level with my system. That explains how they got the experience.As for being a 17th level commoner, I figure that classes are a matter of training. The person who goes and gets a teacher who shows them new styles and ways of using weapons and armor ends up being a fighter. The guy who just likes to fight and never gets formal training ends up as a Warrior. RW expample would be somebody who goes to Harvard verus a no-name local college. They both end up with masters degrees but one had higher requirements, spend more effort and money in the training. A harvard student would be a different &quot;class&quot; than your unacredited college student. Somebody who makes 17th level commoner simply never got training in any class. They spent all their time doing normal stuff and although they may have excelled and done some heroic things, they never sought to be anything more, never took an interest in being any othe class, and simply went back to their trades when it was all said and done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="painandgreed, post: 1808823, member: 24969"] Here's how I'd explain it, but I have strange ideas on NPCs and experience. Basically, I give everybody, PCs included, "Daily XP' which is experience for the trivial stuff in life. Experience for accomplishing the goal of living from one day and into the next. It amounts to about 1/2 an XP per day. This makes it easy to figure out that the 45 year old blacksmith or farmer that is sitting in the in is probalby 3rd level and gives a good indication of what his skill levels are. If they're movers and shakers of the area like the head of the town guard or local leader, they may get an experience point per day (This is what I give PCs, which helps with the "I'm 50 XP short of next level so i go kill rats in the sewer problem. Instead they just train for two months and they get the XP.), making him 5th level. This would put a 300 year old elf who is such a leader at about 15th level with my system. That explains how they got the experience. As for being a 17th level commoner, I figure that classes are a matter of training. The person who goes and gets a teacher who shows them new styles and ways of using weapons and armor ends up being a fighter. The guy who just likes to fight and never gets formal training ends up as a Warrior. RW expample would be somebody who goes to Harvard verus a no-name local college. They both end up with masters degrees but one had higher requirements, spend more effort and money in the training. A harvard student would be a different "class" than your unacredited college student. Somebody who makes 17th level commoner simply never got training in any class. They spent all their time doing normal stuff and although they may have excelled and done some heroic things, they never sought to be anything more, never took an interest in being any othe class, and simply went back to their trades when it was all said and done. [/QUOTE]

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