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<blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 7809305" data-attributes="member: 16586">With a few differences the Plague Doctor is definitely a straight up Cleric with all that entails.If you can have a Surgeon who is Level 2 for purposes of combat prowess, but Level 6 for Medicine I don't see why you could not have an NPC that is Level -1 with say Religion of a 10th Level PC. Maybe a lay priest who knows a ritual the PCs need performed that they need to escort to a specific temple.We have already seen multiple cases where monsters in the Bestiary are substantially different from others of their level. Zombie Shamblers only have 2 actions, have much lower than expected armor class and substantially higher hit points than most creatures of their level. Demons have higher hit points but a weakness to good damage. In a lot of cases where they would have used damage reduction in the past they increased hit points and used the weakness mechanic.The monster/NPC building guidelines will be in the Game Mastery Guide, but they are also planning to release them in PDF form in October alongside the play test for the Investigator, Oracle, Swashbuckler and Witch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Campbell, post: 7809305, member: 16586"] With a few differences the Plague Doctor is definitely a straight up Cleric with all that entails. If you can have a Surgeon who is Level 2 for purposes of combat prowess, but Level 6 for Medicine I don't see why you could not have an NPC that is Level -1 with say Religion of a 10th Level PC. Maybe a lay priest who knows a ritual the PCs need performed that they need to escort to a specific temple. We have already seen multiple cases where monsters in the Bestiary are substantially different from others of their level. Zombie Shamblers only have 2 actions, have much lower than expected armor class and substantially higher hit points than most creatures of their level. Demons have higher hit points but a weakness to good damage. In a lot of cases where they would have used damage reduction in the past they increased hit points and used the weakness mechanic. The monster/NPC building guidelines will be in the Game Mastery Guide, but they are also planning to release them in PDF form in October alongside the play test for the Investigator, Oracle, Swashbuckler and Witch. [/QUOTE]

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