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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5426489" data-attributes="member: 75065">You don't have to make your main villain with PC class creation rules.Even your main boss monster can and should use monster creation guidelines.Do you have access to the monster builder? That really does simplify monster creation by 100000%. An elite or a solo controller of 2-4 levels above the pcs level should do it for your base. Then just scan through some of the monsters that you think might be thematically similar using key word search, and cherry pick the powers you like the sound of and that you think make sense for the kind of witch you have in your head.I have run an NPC built using proper class creation rules. It was very complicated to keep track of everything he could do. It was a very memorable encounter to be sure. He is to this date the most hated NPC in my players minds. But this should be the exception, and not the rule. If you are aware of this and want to go ahead and build your villain this way anyway then I'd build a house ruled (to beef up the defenses a bit) druid/shaman hybrid because I think the shapeshifting and talking to her spirit would be visually very evocative and could make for a very memorable character. A warlock would be fine as well.</blockquote>