Character levels of competency

[Jim Kane]

Originally Posted by Nils_Lindeberg

And secondly, you all seem to assume that a person needs any talents at all.

Would you agree that might be a beneficial idea to assign at least *one talent* to a non-combatant/Mundane NPC; if only to flesh him out beyond a list of three stats, and if for no other reason than to give him some dimension and justify his function as a character within an adventure story - if only in the mind of the creating GM?

I think so, as I believe that the *Willing-Suspension-of-Disbelief* occurs in the mind of the composing GM first, and is transferred to the players second via osmosis; and if this quality is not present in a high enough concentration, it makes *selling the reality of the fantasy* that much harder - at least in my case.

No?