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<blockquote data-quote="Chainsaw" data-source="post: 5073483" data-attributes="member: 70196">In a setting I plan on running in late 2010/early 2011, villager-type NPCs would likely only go as far as differentiating warrior vs non-warrior, while higher level, classed NPCs might be able to use their adventuring experience to go as far as warrior vs thief vs sorcerer vs priest depending on how someone's dressed (and they might be wrong), but no one's ever going to differentiate according to particular class names - unless I decide to make some &quot;Order of the Warlord&quot; organization that has a specific style of dress. In THAT case, then if you match that style of dress, people might say, &quot;Oh, are you a Warlord?&quot;&nbsp;In the current 4E game I play, none of my DM's NPCs ever make any overt or implied reference or recognition of class much beyond warrior vs magic-user. It works fine for us and seems to make sense. In my mind, most NPCs aren't participating in battles, where they could learn the mechanical differences between the classes - even if they were, I would say battle is so fast, hectic and terrifiying, I think it would be a bit meta-gamey to have them say, &quot;Oh, I was watching you in battle - you fight like a Paladin. No, wait, I think it was Warlord with a Paladin multi-class feat.&quot;&nbsp;I suppose it's all about setting flavor and expectations that you and your group have.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chainsaw, post: 5073483, member: 70196"] In a setting I plan on running in late 2010/early 2011, villager-type NPCs would likely only go as far as differentiating warrior vs non-warrior, while higher level, classed NPCs might be able to use their adventuring experience to go as far as warrior vs thief vs sorcerer vs priest depending on how someone's dressed (and they might be wrong), but no one's ever going to differentiate according to particular class names - unless I decide to make some "Order of the Warlord" organization that has a specific style of dress. In THAT case, then if you match that style of dress, people might say, "Oh, are you a Warlord?" In the current 4E game I play, none of my DM's NPCs ever make any overt or implied reference or recognition of class much beyond warrior vs magic-user. It works fine for us and seems to make sense. In my mind, most NPCs aren't participating in battles, where they could learn the mechanical differences between the classes - even if they were, I would say battle is so fast, hectic and terrifiying, I think it would be a bit meta-gamey to have them say, "Oh, I was watching you in battle - you fight like a Paladin. No, wait, I think it was Warlord with a Paladin multi-class feat." I suppose it's all about setting flavor and expectations that you and your group have. [/QUOTE]

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