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<blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 9593669" data-attributes="member: 4303">Sure.But I think there's a huge difference between delineating an NPC to accurately accord with a specific vision - and one which is consistent with the way PCs are constructed - and requiring that the NPC partake of and be a function of an overarching imagined mechanical sub-reality which governs the way the game world works in every detail.My personal preference is to use transparent, interoperable rules with regard to PC and NPC construction; as I've noted on previous occasions, it appeals to my aesthetic and stimulates my creativity to use this framework. But that isn't the same as singling out the game elements (e.g. Power Attack), treating each as a Ding an sich within the imagined world, and affording them an assumed reality independent of their particular context.Which is what happens when an NPC &quot;takes&quot; a feat (with an implication of choice). I would argue that the NPC is assigned a feat to accord with the vision of the DM, and to achieve a certain mechanical goal, I happen to prefer a common language between PCs and NPCs in this regard, but it doesn't require that I assert that the feat exist independent of the characters to which it applies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sepulchrave II, post: 9593669, member: 4303"] Sure. But I think there's a huge difference between delineating an NPC to accurately accord with a specific vision - and one which is consistent with the way PCs are constructed - and requiring that the NPC partake of and be a function of an overarching imagined mechanical sub-reality which governs the way the game world works in every detail. My personal preference is to use transparent, interoperable rules with regard to PC and NPC construction; as I've noted on previous occasions, it appeals to my aesthetic and stimulates my creativity to use this framework. But that [I]isn't[/I] the same as singling out the game elements (e.g. Power Attack), treating each as a [I]Ding an sich [/I]within the imagined world, and affording them an assumed reality independent of their particular context. Which is what happens when an NPC "takes" a feat (with an implication of choice). I would argue that the NPC is [I]assigned[/I] a feat to accord with the vision of the DM, and to achieve a certain mechanical goal, I happen to prefer a common language between PCs and NPCs in this regard, but it doesn't require that I assert that the feat exist independent of the characters to which it applies. [/QUOTE]

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