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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4217771" data-attributes="member: 40961">I'm not surprised, because......of this.  You seem to believe that non player characters, created by the Dungeon Master to fill a gameworld in which Players enjoy a game, are somehow real people.The are not real people.  They are ideas that exist in my mind.  They don't make decisions.  I do.  They don't even have immutable or intrinsic stats.  They have what I give them.  They are constructs, fictional, ephemeral creations.Further, when the players create a character, they don't pick an NPC from the cast of characters occupying my gameworld, divert his destiny, and start leveling him up.  They create a character of their own.Now that character might be Joe, previously Joe the Commoner.  And he be an every day guy who learns to wield a sword and wear armor, and then rises to greatness.But that has nothing to do with what his stats were before he was a Fighter, because before he was a Fighter he didn't exist.And when I invent an NPC, that NPC doesn't need a mechanical capacity built into his stat block that enables him to convert what he is now into player character levels, just in case he becomes a hero.  He's not GOING to become a hero, because he's an NPC Minion Dirtfarmer.  If he WAS going to become a hero, I'd have statted him differently in the first place.  And on the outside chance that an NPC I didn't expect to be important suddenly becomes thrust into heroism?  I'll restat the sucker.Anyways, the fact that a particular NPC isn't built to level from Dirtfarmer to Hero has nothing to do with whether Fred the Commoner, a random person selected by Destiny for greatness (Destiny, in this film, being played by my friend Ben), can rise from obscurity into heroism.I don't know how to make this more clear.  PCs and NPCs don't obtain stats until AFTER its determined whether they're the one destined for greatness, ie, whether they're a player character or an NPC.</blockquote>

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