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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matthias" data-source="post: 3466258" data-attributes="member: 3625">One more thing to add to that, for figuring up NPC skills I've found it useful to stick with setting a pregenned NPC's character level at some multiple of 4 plus one. 1st, 5th, 9th, 13th, 17th, 21st, and so on. The skill point totals (excluding Int bonus) seem to come out to a nice round value at those levels. This tiered-level system also lets me assign some semblance of military rank when it comes to 'mass-produced' NPC soldiers or agents, and some kind of chain of command when it comes to enemy organizations.1st - low-level enlisted (recruits, privates)5th - medium-ranking enlisted (corporals, junior sergeants)9th - high-ranking enlisted (senior sergeants)13th - low-ranking officers (lieutenants, captains)17th - medium-ranking officers (majors, colonels)21st+ - general officersI wouldn't use this phraseology in-game necessarily, but it keeps my own mind focused on the general amount of influence or authority a character might have outside of what they can accomplish 'on the spot' with their skill checks.With regard to Star Wars, this might make some sense at least when it comes to every main character seemingly promoted to a high rank in the Alliance above everyone else's heads .... Han Solo as a general might make a little more sense if he was near or past 21st level at that point in the second trilogy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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