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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadstop" data-source="post: 9573916" data-attributes="member: 61557">Aren’t you an older-editions guy? My initial Moldvay Basic Set from the early 80s had  a monster entry for Normal Men with 1-4 hp, compared to which even a first-level character is mildly extraordinary.Just because PCs level up fairly fast at first doesn’t mean most people “level up” at all. (Or get into that many fights/recover that many treasures, for that matter.) If they do, absolutely treat them as classed NPCs … but the XP rules don’t have to mean that 2nd-level spells (or spellcasters at all) are common, for example. Some worlds do act as though low-level healing magic is available at every temple, sure, but in others actual wonder-working clerics are living saints that come along a few times a generation, and most clergy are Normal Men (or Experts in 3e terms). That’s a setting /group/DM discussion. Treating the mechanics as the physics of the world is a choice, and not one embraced by most editions of D&D.</blockquote>