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<blockquote data-quote="Alcamtar" data-source="post: 201376" data-attributes="member: 3842">I'm not sure how you can separate these two. If the NPC is not fully statted out, how do you know he's legal? I'm not talking about a 1st level guard here, I'm talking about the 10th level bard picked at random from the group of fifty mid-level courtiers in the king's audience chamber. Sure I can assign minimum values to BAB and estimate an AC, but now the character is very weak since 3E is designed to be balanced when all characters are optimized. Anyway if I'm going to stop the game for 10 minutes while I make sure his stats are legal, I might as well take another minute or two and work out his skills.I do have a very good idea of what a given attack bonus or AC or feat will do, as well as the party's ability to handle stuff. If it's going to take too long to fully stat the character and figure out his personal strategy -- wouldn't it make sense to leave off a few feats and just give him +5 BAB or something instead?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alcamtar, post: 201376, member: 3842"] I'm not sure how you can separate these two. If the NPC is not fully statted out, how do you know he's legal? I'm not talking about a 1st level guard here, I'm talking about the 10th level bard picked at random from the group of fifty mid-level courtiers in the king's audience chamber. Sure I can assign minimum values to BAB and estimate an AC, but now the character is very weak since 3E is designed to be balanced when all characters are optimized. Anyway if I'm going to stop the game for 10 minutes while I make sure his stats are legal, I might as well take another minute or two and work out his skills. I do have a very good idea of what a given attack bonus or AC or feat will do, as well as the party's ability to handle stuff. If it's going to take too long to fully stat the character and figure out his personal strategy -- wouldn't it make sense to leave off a few feats and just give him +5 BAB or something instead? [/QUOTE]

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