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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 9257761" data-attributes="member: 4303">I doubt the division was articulated in those terms. I don't think there were "1HD mooks" - but there were bandits, brigands, men-at-arms etc. And brief rules for sedentary and active commoners, if you found yourself in a bar room brawl. No reskinning required.The existence of Rogues Gallery - considering its preamble and the long, detailed lists of lots of NPCs of various levels - suggests to me that the standard practice when devising a classed NPC was to build it using the PHB rules (&DMG rules for personality traits and magic items). The whole point of the supplement was to ease the burden of work on the DM.And it was an early supplement. In 1980, if you had the DMG, PHB, MM, DM Screen, the Greyhawk Folio and Rogues Gallery you had everything except the modules. The early modules do seem to represent a kind of transitional period - in terms of the consistency of detail presented.[Edit] By 1980 there were also Non Player Character Record Sheets, which looked like this:[ATTACH=full]345302[/ATTACH]</blockquote>