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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4028436" data-attributes="member: 41584">Ultimately, we'll all just have to wait and see if 4E fixes this for you, allowing you to make an adventure full of characters, make them interesting, and do it quickly.I'm not sure all three options are compatible.  If 4E characters can be churned out rapidly, even faster than copying out of the charts in the DMG or PHB2, then I'll be impressed.If 4E can be customized and made interesting, as we do with feat selection and alternate class features (and some of us with prestige classes and templates), and *not* take extra time, I'll stand in awe of their reality-warping powers.  I suspect that the process of selecting feats, choosing spells and choosing 'path' (in place of prestige class) is going to be as time-consuming as it is under 3.5 rules, with it *initially* appearing so much faster, if only because there won't be any other books to complicate things.3.5 NPC design goes pretty darn fast if I'm just using Core, after all, especially with that handy set of charts in the DMG of each class by level!  The only limit is how fast you can type, and how fast you can get your DMG open to the correct page.</blockquote>