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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8131974" data-attributes="member: 6906155">There are no potato farmers in your world, as there is no potato farmer class.Yes. If an NPC becomes a PC they then follow PC rules. I would have thought that was pretty obvious.The thing is D&D only has rules for adventuring heroes. It is not a world simulator. The only model we can use for a D&D setting is real world history. But in real world history magic and monsters are not real. So in order to use the real world to model our fantasy world we assume magic and monsters have no significant impact outside a small bubble around the party.That is correct, just read the comics. It's not uncommon for someone to don a costume and try and emulate Batman. And they are dead before the end of the issue.Batman can't do what he does because of his training, or because he is smart, or rich.Batman does what he does because HE IS BATMAN.Yes. Every player character in D&D is the chosen one. If you are not the chosen one then the story isn't about you.And the people they encounter are special too. Not as special - they use NPC stat blocks. But there may be only one coven of necromancers on the planet, but the PCs will bump into it the same way Jessica Fletcher bumps into corpses.</blockquote>