1st level
Join a Basic NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC
Serve as Retainer to a minor Noble (F3) with up to 9 F1 friends
Serve as a Brigand
Serve as a Buccaneer
Serve as a Pirate
Serve as a Dervish
Serve as a Merchant guard
Serve as a Mercenary
Serve as Retainer to a Cleric 7-12
Get religion, go serve a Matriarch/Patriarch (C9+) at their new castle
Build a Castle
2nd level
Join a Basic NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Serve as Squire to a minor Noble (F3)
Get religion, go serve a Matriarch/Patriarch (C9+) at their new castle
Command up to 20 Brigands
Serve as sergeant in a Merchant caravan
Serve as Retainer to a Cleric 7-12
Serve as Retainer to a Magic-User 7-10
Command up to 25 Nomads
Build a Castle
3rd level
Join a Basic NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Serve as sergeant in a Merchant caravan
Serve as Retainer to a Cleric 7-12
Serve as Retainer to a Magic-User 7-10
Serve as Retainer to a Fighter 7-10
Command up to 10 level 1 retainers and 1 F2 squire as a minor Noble
Build a Castle
4th level
Join an Expert NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Serve as Retainer to a Cleric 7-12
Serve as Retainer to a Magic-User 7-10
Serve as Retainer to a Fighter 7-10
Command up to 40 Brigands
Command up to 30 Buccaneers
Command up to 30 Pirates
Command up to 40 Nomands
Build a castle
5th level
Join an Expert NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Serve as Retainer to a Cleric 7-12
Serve as Retainer to a Magic-User 7-10
Serve as Retainer to a Fighter 7-10
Command up to 50 Brigands
Command the guards on a Merchant caravan
Captain a Pirate ship with up to 50 Pirates
Command up to 100 Nomads
Build a castle
6th level
Join an Expert NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Serve as Retainer to a Cleric 7-12
Serve as Retainer to a Fighter 7-10
Build a castle
7th level
Join an Expert NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Captain a Buccaneer vessel
Build a castle
8th level
Join an Expert NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Command a fleet of up to 100 Pirates
Lead a tribe of up to 300 Nomads
Build a castle
9th level
Join an Expert NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Command up to 300 Brigands
Command a Buccaneer fleet
Build a castle
Rule a Barony
10th level
Join an Expert NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Build a castle
Rule a Barony
11th level
Join an Expert NPC Party
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Build a castle
Rule a Barony
Rule a fleet of Pirates as the Pirate Lord
12th-14th level
Serve as Retainer to a PC of at least the same level
Lead a gang of up to 30 Bandits
Build a castle
Rule a Barony
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Can you go into your reasoning on writing the to-do lists a little more? Having read them all I still don't quite get the point.
ReplyDeleteThanks for continuing these lists - I just stumbled upon them and I think they're brilliant.
ReplyDeleteZak: My use for these lists would be:
a) To give you an idea of what any random NPC might be doing relative to his class and level.
b) When you're creating a settlement or community, you can look at these lists and think, "Okay, so how powerful would the local lord/priest/wizard/thief boss be?"
IMHO, it's lile a deconstruct of the original B/X to give you the closest thing D&D has to the career paths of Warhammer FRP.
Jeff: Do you plan on doing them for the demihumans?
cheers
Andy
So it's like a "plausible demographics" thing?
ReplyDeleteJeff - what's the source for 'Build a Castle' being there all the way from 1st level (excluding it seems, 5th. Typo?). I can't see a 1st level fighter building one due to lack of funds, so I'm interested as to where that comes from.
ReplyDeleteZak - I periodically obsess over trying to better understand the '81 BX rules better. It is my own personal ur-D&D so I take it more seriously than any other edition. fantasygamebook has pretty much the right of it. Also, if the PC encounter 3rd level fighter in an NPC party in year 2 of the campaign, what is that same guy up to when they meet him again in year 4? I wanted to see the possibilities.
ReplyDeletefgb: Yes, I will be doing the demihumans. Though they appear far less in the book.
James: Page X7, "Fighters with enough money may build a castle" full stop. The 5th level was an omission.