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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9570862" data-attributes="member: 29398">Yes they do, or can if they want to.Yes they do, or most certainly should.&nbsp; Otherwise the actual PCs become far too divorced from their setting for my liking.The relative narrative importance of one NPC over another doesn't change their underlying &quot;mechanics&quot;, nor should it.A butcher will, over time, become better at killing chickens and may be able to translate those skills into killing other things, i.e. he very very slowly self-trains his way into becomeing a 0th-level warrior of some sort.&nbsp; Or not, if said butcher only ever gets so proficient at killing chickens and for whatever reason stalls there i.e. has risen to highest-possible personal level of competence in that arena and might be better off doing something else.Assuming the bolded &quot;can&quot; was supposed to be &quot;can't&quot;, I again disagree.&nbsp; There's no logical reason why stay-at-home mages and clerics can't gain abilities (expressed as levels) as they go along; with the big difference being the rate of gain: adventurers level up every time they sneeze while a stay-at-home might only gain a level every several years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9570862, member: 29398"] Yes they do, or can if they want to. Yes they do, or most certainly should. Otherwise the actual PCs become far too divorced from their setting for my liking. The relative narrative importance of one NPC over another doesn't change their underlying "mechanics", nor should it. A butcher will, over time, become better at killing chickens and may be able to translate those skills into killing other things, i.e. he very very slowly self-trains his way into becomeing a 0th-level warrior of some sort. Or not, if said butcher only ever gets so proficient at killing chickens and for whatever reason stalls there i.e. has risen to highest-possible personal level of competence in that arena and might be better off doing something else. Assuming the bolded "can" was supposed to be "can't", I again disagree. There's no logical reason why stay-at-home mages and clerics can't gain abilities (expressed as levels) as they go along; with the big difference being the rate of gain: adventurers level up every time they sneeze while a stay-at-home might only gain a level every several years. [/QUOTE]

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