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Yes, with the implied idea that if a PC wants to give up adventuring and become a Sage or Alchemist instead it's possible - given some...

That’s true and it’s something that I try to keep in mind for wizard PCs. It’s one of the things I don’t like about sorcerers in...

You've got it backwards. 1e introduced NPCs as just PC classes controlled by the DM. They rolled stats like PCs, had classes like PCs...

Verisimilitude. That's the purpose they serve. Simulation of a consistent imaginary world.

What does that have to do with the topic at hand? Is there something about being a new DM that means you won't need a CR 2 Mage? If...

I'm not assuming anything. P.92 of the DMG (2014) says you can use a monster stat block, or you can create one like a PC using class and...

One thing about the NPCs using same spells, same weapon stats etc than the PCs is that it makes modifying them easier and more...

That info is very useful, though, as it tells me-as-DM what's in the caster's spellbook - which the PCs are, after all, inevitably going...

Me neither. But I want to use the same "framework", I just only put the things important to the encounter in the statblock. Here's an...

An ooze or jelly would not be PC-playable, nor a Demon, nor (yet) a Hill Giant, etc. usually for balance reasons. Also, some DMs ban...

Which blows up your in-setting consistency. If an NPC Elf can do X-Y-Z-A in combination then a PC Elf should (and IMO must) have the...

Some of those seemingly-excess rules are there purely for small-g gamist concerns such as balance and playability (it's been so in every...

You don't have to go through that whole process with an NPC, so long as the result is something you could have gotten with a PC that...

Another import change for theoretical. 6E: they stop assuming their customers are idiots. It is okay if things are a little bit complicated.

Yeah, this is annoying. I often end up modifying NPC statblocks to make them more PC-like, and I do not love that the 5.5 design has...