ORDINARIES

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• Action Points - Unlike heroes, ordinary characters do not receive action points.
• Advanced Classes - Although ordinaries can multiclass freely between the six basic classes, they cannot take levels in any advanced class.
• Challenge Ratings - An ordinary character has a Challenge Rating equal to his or her character level -1.
• Children - Children (newborns to age 11) are handled differently from other characters.
• Class Features - Ordinary characters gain none of the Class Features (talents or bonus feats) listed under each basic class.
• Heroic Gm Characters - Heroic allies and antagonists are built the same way as heroic player characters.
• Access To Advanced Classes - Supporting characters with levels in one or more heroic basic classes can...
• Action Points - Heroic supporting characters gain action points. However, few of them have...
• Class Features - Heroic supporting characters gain all the class features (talents and bonus feats) available to the six basic heroic classes.
• Hit Points - Heroic supporting characters gain maximum hit points at 1st level, just as heroic player characters do.
• Hit Points - Unlike heroes, ordinaries do not automatically receive maximum hit points at 1st level.
• Starting Ability Scores - Ordinaries do not roll their ability scores. They start with the standard score package: 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8.