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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8683769" data-attributes="member: 52734">D&amp;D is split on that.&nbsp; In older editions (explicitly I remember 2E), you could, for example, have a 0th level character as a king.&nbsp; Skill at a profession was not tied to level in at least 1E &amp; 2E.I think 3E further complicated things with the NPCs classes.&nbsp; In that, skill was DEFINATELY tied to level.&nbsp; With the old “9th is name level”, you could see something like Initiate levels 1-3, Apprentice levels 4-6, Journeyman 7-9, Master 10+ level.With 5E no longer using skill points, mostly it goes back to the 1E &amp; 2E design - though you could argue that the proficiency modifier defines the relative “skill level” of the individual (though the difference there isn’t as great as it was in 3E).Mostly now (short of spells), level doesn’t equate directly to skill in a profession.&nbsp; It’s just a measure of how powerful a protagonist you are (i.e., importance to the story) and the level of threats you can expect to take on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 8683769, member: 52734"] D&D is split on that. In older editions (explicitly I remember 2E), you could, for example, have a 0th level character as a king. Skill at a profession was not tied to level in at least 1E & 2E. I think 3E further complicated things with the NPCs classes. In that, skill was DEFINATELY tied to level. With the old “9th is name level”, you could see something like Initiate levels 1-3, Apprentice levels 4-6, Journeyman 7-9, Master 10+ level. With 5E no longer using skill points, mostly it goes back to the 1E & 2E design - though you could argue that the proficiency modifier defines the relative “skill level” of the individual (though the difference there isn’t as great as it was in 3E). Mostly now (short of spells), level doesn’t equate directly to skill in a profession. It’s just a measure of how powerful a protagonist you are (i.e., importance to the story) and the level of threats you can expect to take on. [/QUOTE]

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