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<blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 8593674" data-attributes="member: 86051"><p>Looks like Mr. Greenwood may have been confronted with a similar problem re Hit Dice for NPCs. I suppose it would be reasonable to assume that he based his scribe on the DMG1 p. 33 "(expert) hireling" scribe and that he "solved the problem" by having the scribe attack as a 1st-level Fighter and then make saving throws as a [scribe level] Fighter. </p><p>However, I'm still having trouble with the rationale behind the latter. I can see why a scribe (as an entity without a characters class) would have to make his saving throws as a Fighter but I can't see why he would be allowed to make them as a high-level Fighter when he gets to the higher levels. I assume that high-level Fighters (and other PC classes) get to get better saves at higher levels because they spend their lives confronting the horrors and challenges of tombs and descents into the depths of the earth, which isn't really where I'd see a scribe spend any amount of time, not in the least because he is an NPC?</p><p></p><p>Still, I have just been informed that this post has earned me a "keeps coming back award" and I suppose we could consider Mr. Greenwood a semi-"official" source, so I may be well on my way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ilgatto, post: 8593674, member: 86051"] Looks like Mr. Greenwood may have been confronted with a similar problem re Hit Dice for NPCs. I suppose it would be reasonable to assume that he based his scribe on the DMG1 p. 33 "(expert) hireling" scribe and that he "solved the problem" by having the scribe attack as a 1st-level Fighter and then make saving throws as a [scribe level] Fighter. However, I'm still having trouble with the rationale behind the latter. I can see why a scribe (as an entity without a characters class) would have to make his saving throws as a Fighter but I can't see why he would be allowed to make them as a high-level Fighter when he gets to the higher levels. I assume that high-level Fighters (and other PC classes) get to get better saves at higher levels because they spend their lives confronting the horrors and challenges of tombs and descents into the depths of the earth, which isn't really where I'd see a scribe spend any amount of time, not in the least because he is an NPC? Still, I have just been informed that this post has earned me a "keeps coming back award" and I suppose we could consider Mr. Greenwood a semi-"official" source, so I may be well on my way. [/QUOTE]
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