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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ptolemy18" data-source="post: 2513237" data-attributes="member: 24970">I recently picked up HEROES OF BATTLE and STORMWRACK, and although I liked STORMWRACK a lot, they both confirmed something which has been bugging me ever since 3.5 started.......Wizards' D&D 3.5 products contain WAY too many unnecessary sample NPCs and NPC stat blocks! I first noticed this way back in MONSTER MANUAL 3.5, where all the "monster templates" were given a sample statted-out monster. That I can sort of understand... but it's really getting annoying to see each and every prestige class get its own sample-NPC writeup.I *like* prestige classes, but I don't need to see each one statted out in agonizing detail ("Ovlivo, Gnome Rogue 5/Fancy Lad 3"). My campaign is pretty different from Greyhawk, so I would pretty much never use some random sample NPC in one of my own campaigns -- the sample NPC stat-blocks in the DMG are good enough and it's simple to graft the required prestige classes onto them. I can only assume that Wizards is banking on the fact that there are inexperienced  or casual DMs out there who will actually plug-and-play prestige-class sample NPCs just in case they happen to need a CR 8 Fancy Lad NPC in their totally-unprepared-for dungeon crawl. (What are the chances that your campaign needs a prestige-class NPC of a specific CR, anyway....?) However, for me, the sample NPCs for prestige classes are just a way to squeeze a few more pages out of the books. :/</whine & complain>Jason</blockquote>

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