A challenge (or two)

[Infiniti2000]

Egads, ECL? Yikes. That puts it well over 20 I think.

I'm not sure what it is, but I agree it's a lot. I don't think there are any rules on equipment above 20, either, though I'm sure it's easy enough to extrapolate. I wouldn't do it that way, of course; in fact, I didn't know that rule existed (or at least I didn't recall reading it) until I looked it up when looking over your numbers.

For the record, I equip NPCs based on their CR (individual) or EL (groups or to make individual treasures less 'structured') from the monster treasure chart of the NPC gear list. It wreaks far less havoc in the game.

 

[Pinotage]

Is there an errata giving LA to Monster of Legend?

Aack! No I'd forgotten that one in the list. I'd probably add LA+2 or +3 to it, but it's still ECL 23+. Personally I always use CR as a treasure guideline, otherwise you skew things horribly in favor of the PCs if they manage to kill an NPC.

Pinotage