Level 20 commoners?

[DragonLancer]

That's why PCs advance a whole lot faster than commoners. In many campaigns, a PC can be 5th level a month or two after his first adventure. For a commoner, who doesn't go out of his way to do dangerous stuff, it's nowhere near that dangerous.

Also, I subscribe to Keith Baker's theory of classes and levels - not everyone has the potential to reach any level, or to take any class. Most people top out as a level 3 commoner or something like that. PCs are exceptional in that fashion, which is why they're the ones who get called upon to solve problems.

Exactlly. Thats the point here.

Do you have a link to his theories?

 

[Staffan]

Exactlly. Thats the point here.

Do you have a link to his theories?

Not off-hand, but it's definitely mentioned in the huge "Ask Keith Baker" threads on the WOTC boards (they have collected his answers in a separate thread that's a lot shorter and easier to look through), and possibly in one of the Dragonshards articles as well.