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<blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 1304107" data-attributes="member: 5777">Yes, gaining exp is only defined for pc's. However, that does not mean that only pc's gain levels, it only means that the dm gets to decide the hows and whens.At which point the dm has to ask himself what makes sense for his world. Do hundreds of 1st level guys running around with only a couple of people actually have any levels make sense? Not in any sense that I've seen. All of the modules I've seen for 3rd edition seem to assume that only people with a few levels of experience even matter. The rest are cannon fodder. But they genereally arent well defined, and are actually lower in number than they should be according to the dmg.Crazy first level peons.. unless all of their ints are 4 or less they should be able to gain something out of the world. Or at least one would hope.20 levels of commoner is a bit odd, but if it is all you've ever wanted to do, and you have made yourself the best commoner in the land that is ok I suppose. I would think in any normal campaign though he would've picked up a few levels of warrior and/or expert along the way. Perhaps even a pc class. An uncommon commoner if you will <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scion, post: 1304107, member: 5777"] Yes, gaining exp is only defined for pc's. However, that does not mean that only pc's gain levels, it only means that the dm gets to decide the hows and whens. At which point the dm has to ask himself what makes sense for his world. Do hundreds of 1st level guys running around with only a couple of people actually have any levels make sense? Not in any sense that I've seen. All of the modules I've seen for 3rd edition seem to assume that only people with a few levels of experience even matter. The rest are cannon fodder. But they genereally arent well defined, and are actually lower in number than they should be according to the dmg. Crazy first level peons.. unless all of their ints are 4 or less they should be able to gain something out of the world. Or at least one would hope. 20 levels of commoner is a bit odd, but if it is all you've ever wanted to do, and you have made yourself the best commoner in the land that is ok I suppose. I would think in any normal campaign though he would've picked up a few levels of warrior and/or expert along the way. Perhaps even a pc class. An uncommon commoner if you will ;) [/QUOTE]

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