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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grydan" data-source="post: 5847202" data-attributes="member: 79401">Try becoming the head of the Anglican church and calling yourself Pope. See how well that goes over. I mean, clearly, you can't rise any higher in the ranks of your organization, so you must have the same job title as someone else in a similar position...Not all churches are going to follow the same ranking structure, use the same titles.The ranks in one nation's military might not correspond directly to those in another's.Not all thieve's guilds will follow a strict and commonly held ranking structure, nor are all rogues thieves, or all thieves in guilds.Your campaign isn't likely to follow the same hierarchies as my campaign. Add in a third person, and their campaign is likely as different from both of ours as ours are from each other. Creating a system of titles that fits two campaigns is a stretch. One that fits hundreds or thousands is fairly improbable.As Ainamacar says, it takes up name space. If "Swashbuckler" is a level name, then it can't be a class, or a theme, or a set of options, or even just a description of someone who swashes their buckler (or buckles their swashes). If "Sergeant" is a level name, then either all sergeants in all campaigns, across all settings need to be that level, or you're creating unnecessary confusion. I want to be able to have sergeants who are first level PCs, 2nd level NPCs, 12th level NPCs who have been called out of retirement because the goblins are acting up again and boy did they piss off the wrong non-commissioned officer.</blockquote>

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