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<blockquote data-quote="abirdcall" data-source="post: 8411765" data-attributes="member: 6748898">I find it narratively limiting to have all NPCs constrained within the PC rules.Just as trying to create a physics simulation using the rules it is both a needless and futile endeavour.It makes for such a small and homogeneous world if there are only 13 types of people.The alternative is that everyone in the world can have unique attributes and abilities. The latter sounds much better to me. 3e tried the former even going so far as to say what levelled NPCs can be in a town of a given size. But even that can be changed by the DM just deciding on the size of the town. So now there needs to be a rule on what size towns can be. And where they are. And there could even be rules on where in the world there can be forests and ruins and gems and what monsters and how many can be where and on and on. And for what? It will all ultimately come down to the DM decides so just let them decide to have NPCs have cool powers if they want.And conversely the PCs get to have cool powers the NPCs don't have.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="abirdcall, post: 8411765, member: 6748898"] I find it narratively limiting to have all NPCs constrained within the PC rules. Just as trying to create a physics simulation using the rules it is both a needless and futile endeavour. It makes for such a small and homogeneous world if there are only 13 types of people. The alternative is that everyone in the world can have unique attributes and abilities. The latter sounds much better to me. 3e tried the former even going so far as to say what levelled NPCs can be in a town of a given size. But even that can be changed by the DM just deciding on the size of the town. So now there needs to be a rule on what size towns can be. And where they are. And there could even be rules on where in the world there can be forests and ruins and gems and what monsters and how many can be where and on and on. And for what? It will all ultimately come down to the DM decides so just let them decide to have NPCs have cool powers if they want. And conversely the PCs get to have cool powers the NPCs don't have. [/QUOTE]

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