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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arlough" data-source="post: 5904525" data-attributes="member: 79335">In 1e & 2e, skills were level independent, but number of skills were not.  So that lvl 1  character would be able to fill in about 3 skills (assuming that nobody else had seen them to be valuable enough to take) and could stand watch.  But they could only do this in safe areas, because lvl 15 characters will be taking on conflicts in places too dangerous for a lvl 1 character to even contemplate.Also, filling in a few skills is not really meaningful contribution. Especially if the rest of the party is expected to spend resources to keep you alive in all the other situations.  Quite frankly, I would rather have an NPC in my party that I had to protect than a PC with a disengaged player.As for the flanking in combat, the lvl 1 would die immediately after pulling adjacent to the enemy, and now you have a body to haul around.I agree that he doesn't have to be absolutely necessarily to contribute, but his contribution must be meaningful or it is just a waste of time.If you are given a penny, you don't immediately revalue your assets to account for that additional penny, because it is not a meaningful amount.  A lvl 1's contribution to a lvl 15 party is that penny.</blockquote>