Social Status Table

The player should determine the social class of each character he has in the campaign. This is accomplished by use of the Social Class Table (given below). This table does not include any social or political information, but that guidelines of this sort are included in a reference immediately following the table. This allows the DM to model the social class distinctions to the tenor of his or her individual milieu.

Typical members of a class

LLC: Freed slaves, peasants, tinkers, vagabonds, beggars, criminals, low-level thieves and assassins
MLC: Herdsmen, laborers, peddlers, actors, jugglers, men-at-arms, low-level barbarians, thieves, high-level assassins, low-level bards, low-level jesters
ULC: Freemen, tradesmen, petty officers, money-changers, mountebanks, fences, low-level fighters, high-level thieves
LMC: Artisans, craftsmen, petty merchants, junior officers, bankers, landless knights, druids, rangers, low-level mystics
MMC: Landed gentry, merchants, petty officials, senior officers, landless petty nobles, fighters, lowlevel magic-users and low-level illusionists
UMC: Guild masters, great merchants, military commanders, officials, landless nobles, lesser clerics, high-level fighters, mid-level magic-users and illusionists, low-level savants
LUC: Great landed gentry, generals and marshals, greater officials, knights, clerics, paladins, cavaliers, high-level magic-users and illusionists
MUC: Knights, commanders, great clerics, nobles, high-level paladins, very high-level M-U’s
UUC: Great nobles, sovereign nobility, royalty
The various occupations and status positions can be adjusted as required by the background of each milieu. The positioning of non-humans is entirely dependent upon the individual milieu. As a general rule, a human society would most probably consider the non-humans as:
Dwarves — MMC (they are reputed to have gold and gems!)
Elves — ULC (wood elves) to LUC (gray elves)
Gnomes — ULC to LMC
Halflings — ULC (they are small and rustic)
Half-elves — Slightly above a human counterpart
Half-orcs — LLC