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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 6034691" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I've been thinking a lot about this recently in my Pathfinder campaign --including how levels should be used for NPCs and the like.  My campaign has the spell casting availability in settlements of different sizes shifted by one or two rows compared to the canonical table (higher levels being more rare).I picture 1st level being a competent journeyman.  You've finished something equivalent to a good formal apprenticeship and are now on your own (although there may have been nothing formal about it - maybe formal training to be a knight, or maybe being a grunt who served a tour or two and made the best of it).  Taking that somewhere between 50% and 80% of people are out working in the fields, and others scrape by doing menial or semi-skilled labor in the towns and cities, that already puts the PC pretty high up there.  Sure, they're something special in a small home village, but there are lots of others at their level in the large towns, cities, and armies (although maybe not a lot in their particular PC class).   As    @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=79401" target="_blank">Grydan</a>  noted though, the PCs also have higher ability scores which further separate them... part of the "pc aura".   They might not currently be that much more skilled than those who they served or trained with, but good judges of talent might note that they have lots of future potential left.  They haven't topped out.I picture 5th level, clearly being a well-known master by any reasonable standard (its the level where craftsmen can make magic items, and casters get things like fireball and dispel magic).   Most of those that served with you in the past probably never made it past 1st level, let alone gotten this far.I picture 9th/10th level being true giants in their fields - teleport, raise dead, able to take on the greater undead, and some of the things from the outer planes.</blockquote>

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