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<blockquote data-quote="stevelabny" data-source="post: 6035438" data-attributes="member: 9298">Well, I think this poll is explaining to me why I'm at odds with most gamers nowadays. I voted &quot;Average Joe&quot; but I guess it should've been &quot;Average Joe...with potential&quot; mainly based on the idea that PCs have higher stats than NPCs. I look at 1st level PCs as high schoolers. For modern comparisons, a 1st level fighter would be a high school athlete. Slightly better at sports than most people, but still no guarantee he will become a college player, or a pro. And while he may be better than an &quot;average joe&quot; at sports and possibly other physical activities, he IS an average joe or worse at computer programming, crime or theology.&nbsp; And saying an &quot;average joe&quot; can't play sports, commit crimes, program, or pray is just disingenuous. Having one skillset does not make someone special. I understand that some roleplayers don't like this because they despise the&nbsp; cliche of all 1st level PCs being young farmboys, and&nbsp; think it limits character types and prevents old PCs, but I feel its better to adjust a specific PCs backstory, providing some reason why they are so low a level with all their life experience (held captive, amnesia, sickness, researcher, etc etc), than it is to have every 1st level PC already being special and 10th level PCs ruling the multiverse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stevelabny, post: 6035438, member: 9298"] Well, I think this poll is explaining to me why I'm at odds with most gamers nowadays. I voted "Average Joe" but I guess it should've been "Average Joe...with potential" mainly based on the idea that PCs have higher stats than NPCs. I look at 1st level PCs as high schoolers. For modern comparisons, a 1st level fighter would be a high school athlete. Slightly better at sports than most people, but still no guarantee he will become a college player, or a pro. And while he may be better than an "average joe" at sports and possibly other physical activities, he IS an average joe or worse at computer programming, crime or theology. And saying an "average joe" can't play sports, commit crimes, program, or pray is just disingenuous. Having one skillset does not make someone special. I understand that some roleplayers don't like this because they despise the cliche of all 1st level PCs being young farmboys, and think it limits character types and prevents old PCs, but I feel its better to adjust a specific PCs backstory, providing some reason why they are so low a level with all their life experience (held captive, amnesia, sickness, researcher, etc etc), than it is to have every 1st level PC already being special and 10th level PCs ruling the multiverse. [/QUOTE]

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