Originally posted by La_Mirah

Also, this doesn't have anything to do with grammar or spelling, but what the heck... I found a couple of mentions of the warrior class in the fighter class description and the skill descriptions, the aristocrat in the noble class section and in the skills area, and a mention of experts as common multiclass option for priests of Moradin, and no mention at all of commoners or adepts. As I understand, adepts have been mostly replaced by the magician, but there should be at least a paragraph explicitly stating what the relations between the NPC classes and society are.
Commoners are mentioned in Chapt 8 under bodyguards.

Magicians are not the "replacement" for adepts. Adepts are divine spellcasters and are best seen as clerics in training. Adepts are mentioned in the cleric section "and their NPC counterparts the adept". There has been much discussion as to whether the magician should be a playable class or an NPC class and some other discussion as to whether it shuld be based on the loremaster prestige class.

Most of the NPC classes can best be represented by the descriptive words in the DMG. It was decided to not try to rewrite the DMG to accomodate this. It was also the desire not to handcuff a DM by putting in to much description of things that were best left up to the DM's descretion, like how to fit in NPC classes into his campaign format/structure. Only things that required a lot of reworking, like transforming the NPC class aristocrat into the PC class the noble or writing up some specific expert types (see Chapt 8 the bodyguard section) were done. Looking it over some write up on the adept is probably warranted though due to the unique deity structure in Birthright, but commoners and warriors should require no additional input/clarification other than that in the DMG.
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