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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 4028930" data-attributes="member: 10095">Because NPCs honestly don't need PC-based rules if they're simply an encounter or a background character. You don't need to stat out the blacksmith that sells them weapons, nor the mayor that gives them some quests. If they fight them, you need stats, but you don't need to use PC-based rules for that when the monster-based rules are faster, easier, and balanced to present the proper challenge at the appropriate level.Making me spend more time than my entire pool of players combined, simply on NPC creation alone, detracts from all the other stuff I have to do as a DM. Giving me some standardized traits based on "monster role" and the ability to plugin some extra stuff if I want saves me tons of time compared to having to tally up all the skill points, make sure feats are spent right, and the guy has enough magic items (or arbitrary bonuses) to be a threat.Instead of doing all that number crunching, or copying things from a chart, or navigating through huge stat blocks, I can use the smaller, cleaner, and faster stuff they're including in 4e.</blockquote>