I just hope the hamlet NPCs aren't as powerful as those FFXI campaign NPCs. It always made me feel like the weakest person in the whole world. And why would they send a weak adventurer to do important things when they could just have the god-like NPCs walk thru and destroy everything?

Remember that paladin NPC at East Ronfaure {S} campaign? Man she was tough, tanking like 20 orcs at a time plus the boss. Cait Sith should have asked her for help instead of me.