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Hmm. OK, maybe I will see how it works in play before I house rule a nerf for it.

The NPCs in the book are not using the "Class Template" rules on DMG 182. They are using the "Creating NPCs" rules on DMG 186-188. Some of my house rules actually make the NPCs are bit weaker, because I reduce the NPC Level Bonus from the table on DMG 188. So, the NPCs in the book are "legal"...

The daily power of the Mnemonic Staff seems problematic: Power (Daily): Minor Action. Swap a power you’ve prepared for another power in your spellbook of equal or lower level. Each power must also be of equal or lower level than the level of the staff. As written, it seems like you can swap...

There is a useful baseline: the NPCs rules. Sure, there are some cases where they don't work quite right (like Lay on Hands), but it is easiest enough to tweak them. I'd much prefer that Wizards devoted their time to keeping PCs balanced than that the spent a lot of energy covering corner-cases...

That's correct. I am following the Monster Manual conventions.

No, the house rules are just for balancing. The wizard's GSL says that if you apply existing rules to a stat block (like applying a template to a monster) which make mathematical modifications to that stat block, then you can re-print it. The GSL explicitly forbids re-printing stat blocks "as...

I am pretty confident that the content of the Book of NPCs is allowed under the GSL, which does let you re-print stat blocks if you apply mathematical changes them. I am equally sure that the code I used to produce the NPCs is not allowed by the GSL, since character creation software is...

If you like the Book of NPCs, I created thread for feedback and suggestions here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-fan-creations-house-rules/247602-book-npcs.html

Here is my project for the 2008 holiday season: a book of ready-to-play NPCs using Monster Manual style stat blocks. Downloads - D&D 4th Edition - Book of NPCs - EN World D&D / RPG News This is the file that I originally mentioned in this post, which includes a sample file if you don't want to...

OK, I finished up the rangers and posted my Book of NPCs to the Enworld download section: Downloads - D&D 4th Edition - Book of NPCs - EN World D&D / RPG News That's 4000 or so NPCs, 17 builds for 24 races and levels 1 to 10. That ought to keep you busy for a while. I will post a longer...

I will post what you want soon OK, that's bizarre. My holiday project is writing a program that does exactly what you want: produce MM-style NPC stat blocks for all the PH classes and PH/MM races. I am very close to getting the heroic-tier characters done. I am missing only rangers, which are...

I agree with Mesh Hong. I think it is important, balance-wise, that you cannot make a ranged attack in combination with a charge. Otherwise, a party of snipers can kill a melee-only monster with very little risk, simply by backing up each round. As the rules stand, the melee-only creatures can...

Here are my current ritual house rules, which eliminate the monetary cost of rituals. I haven't found them to be unbalanced. In fact, despite the ease of casting, my wizard has only cast one ritual since the campaign started (three adventures). Rituals are grouped into three categories, based...

Personally, I'd rule that the "until the end of your next turn" limit still applies in this case to a multiclass drow ranger.

End every combat encounter with "You interrogate your prisoners for an hour and learn no useful information." That way, you are wasting at most of minute or so of game time. That is, unless you want to give the PCs a useful tidbit of information.

I would not make this a new pact. I would make it an option for all of the existing pacts. If you sacrifice your Pact Poon and Prime Shot, you get a Pact Servant that behaves more or less like a Ranger's companion beast. The Pact Servant is appropriate to the pact: a pixie for a Fey Pact, an Imp...

Adventure #2 Here is the second adventure in the series. I ran it last Sunday, rather successfully. I am running the third adventure on Dec 7, and will likely post it a week or so later (around Dec 14).

This is not an issue I am especially "worried" about. It is an odd combat situation, and one that the monster can generally get around (via flight, bull rush, etc.) It does like a weird quirk of the rules that it takes 8 PCs to block a medium creature but only 4 to block a large one. This could...

I was prepping a fight with a Large Solo, and realized that it is relatively simple for the PCs to position themselves so that the monster can't move: X XOO OOX X If 4 PCs position themselves around the monster, the monster has no direction in which it can move without entering an enemy...

I apologize for the late reply. I was out of town this weekend. A little of both. When I portray NPCs I take a mix of what is interesting about both the "classic" D&D race and the culture with which they are associated to produce a more interesting character. I am not terribly interested in...