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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1638353" data-attributes="member: 3146">As others said, you really need tactics not min-maxing help.All of the min-maxing you need is to learn how to create NPCs who perform reasonably well for their level and what abilities are good for what. So, here's my advice:1. When creating NPCs, give them at least a 15 in their primary stat. A 15 is sufficient, a 16 is good, a 17 is very good, and an 18 will have your players wondering why all their foes have better stats than they do. Then advance them and apply all of their 1/4lvl stat bumps to their primary stat. So a 4th level foe should have a primary stat of 16-18. An 8th level foe: 17-19. A 12th level foe: 18-20.2. Make sure that your NPCs are equipped appropriately or at least have help that simulates such equipment. A group of 8th level NPC fighters should have magic weapons. If you don't want to give your players loot, make that magic come from a chained greater magic weapon cast by the BBEG. But they need good weapons. They need good armor too. Maybe the BBEG cast Magic Vestment on their armor and that's why it works like +2 and the player's can't get it but ordinary armor just won't cut it.3. Pick feats that are useful for the bad guys. An evil warlord's bodyguard will not have Craft: Armorsmith and skill focus: Underwater basket weaving. They will have weapon focus, greater weapon focus, weapon specialization, power attack, Iron Will, Combat Expertise, Improved Trip (and if they've got Improved Trip, they're probably wielding flails, halberds, spiked chains or other trip weapons), etc.And that's about as far as bad guy creation will take you. The rest is tactics. Your bad guys need to work together and have a balance of classes and be able to deal with things like flight and invisibility if they are going to challenge high level PCs.</blockquote>

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