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It must be hard to break into this field of NPC Generation. How is the clearly inferior MythWeaver generator still at the top of Google's search results for "NPC Generator"? Did people stop caring and linking to new NPC generators so it's impossible to climb the list? The #2 generator...

Jamis Buck's NPC Generator: It's not online and I didn't feel like downloading it, but he has PDFs on the page with about fifty examples of the bards it generates. That's handy. The good: It's pretty -- the character sheet output looks great. The spells are selected and the summaries are more...

BTW, the reason nobody's linking to the download at Paizo is that you're supposed to be signed in to download it. (I used a bugmenot account myself.) Oh, is that what's going on? It looked like a lot of fiddly little "I lowered the Cha bonus by 1" and I couldn't tell why they wanted to do it.

Say you fed them peanut butter so their mouths were stuck closed and they couldn't bark. Defy the DM to find rulings on the effectiveness of peanut butter.

Whatever depth there might be in NPC Designer, you managed not to kludge the thing up for the new user who just wants a 6th-level bard. Keep it Simple is a really important and really hard thing to do. That's only 4011 gold -- you're supposed to get 5400. PCs get 13,000, nobody was giving me...

RandNPC.xls: This is the spreadsheet Peter Adkison uses to design NPCs in his games. 6L human bard (LE female) Ability Scores: Str 10, Dex 13, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 8, Cha 16 AC, Move, Saves AC 15 (mstrwrk studded leather), HP 29, Spd 30', Fort: +3, Ref: +6, Will: +4 Melee Attacks: mstrwrk...

NPC Designer: This is a program you have to download and install. It's free. Aswyn CR6 Male Human Bard 6 NG Medium Humanoid Init +5 (+1 Dex, +4 Improved Initiative); Senses Listen +8, Spot +6 Languages Common, Ettin, Gnoll, Celestial, Elven, Orc, Abyssal, Gnome, Halfling, Goblin, Sylvan...

DM Genie: This is a standalone program that comes with an intiative tracker. After you generate the characters, you can put them in the tracker and apply prone condition and buffs and it will do the math. But I never paid for it so I just use it to generate NPCs. If you have a computer...

This reminds me that the Alexandrian, who's a very experienced and intelligent DM, also allowed the heaps of lamp oil trick to work in this story. (Search on "skeletal" to get to the start of it.) So it's not just something only a bad DM would do.

This is an idiosyncratic review of the various NPC generators I have come across, based on how close they can come to making a level 6 Bard for 3.5 that I can use as a monster right then and there. NPC Generator at Myth-Weavers: This seemed like the state of the art the first time I Googled for...

Now I understand! In OD&D, you could research your own spelling. In 4E, you never end up with a power like Drawmij's Reaping Stryke -- the system just doesn't allow that kind of freedom, damn it all!

As businessmen frequently tell aspiring bookstore owners, "Never enter into a business where there are substantial nonbusiness reasons for other people to enter the business." The competition from hobbyists drives down everybody's profits. Anyway, I say look at some of the other NPC generators...

I would suggest ROYGBIV order. You want it to be simple. Or... I have a 2-inch 20-sider, if I could find a couple more sized between that one and a normal one it would be obvious which are which. Then when I played a monk I'd have to get one of those little tiny crystal ones for the fifth...

Standard action can't be quite 4 seconds, or a move action would be 2 seconds and you could take three in a round. Call it 3.5 seconds. Not that it matters.

Maybe you should have started a new thread, but I'm interested in that too. A standard action should take half the round, right? Three seconds? And in three seconds you fall 9.8m/s/s /2 * 3 s * 3s , right? Which is 44 meters or 145 feet, right? So if the pit were 150 feet deep, you should...

I do appreciate this "forked thread" thing because new threads are the only way I'd ever see these interesting posts.

I searched for a while and found the thread by Orcus that people were talking about but I'm getting lazy now. Could anyone link to this "Mr Peterson" guy if his comments are something I need to read?

Sorry to bump the thread but I found the blog post Janx was referring to.

That excuse doesn't work. Morrus' example is for an individual who bought one adventure path and bought one copy of each map. So whether they are good at mass producing or not isn't an issue -- the pricing is not individual-friendly either.

But the item has a curse that goes along with it: it changes your character's name to Q*bert.