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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7238293" data-attributes="member: 6799649">This is an absurd misunderstanding. Possibly even a deliberate misunderstanding.Just because you are not obliged to roll the stats of every single NPC if their stats aren't going to get used in the story, this in no way means that such NPCs don't HAVE Str/Dex/Con/Int/Wis/Cha scores!If they didn't have any Str they wouldn't be able to move. Without Intelligence they wouldn't be able to speak.Just because you can't be bothered to roll those stats doesn't mean that the NPC doesn't have stats!This is like an ostrich sticking its head in the sand. If you can't see them then they're not really there! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Quote the 5E text which says that the general population is not assumed to be consistent with the 3d6 bell curve.It's not a fair task actually, because no book is going to do that. But what they would do, if they wanted to change that assumption, is tell us what the new assumption is.And yet again, "Can't be bothered to put numbers on it" is not taking away any assumptions about the numbers they have when you can be bothered!</blockquote>