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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 6882901" data-attributes="member: 5100">I picked door number 2 (common, not universal), but it's more complicated than that.I don't really worry about statting them up with class levels, but do try to mirror the power progression. So, there are no arcanists with 3 third-level slots and 5 1st level slots, but no 2nd level slots -- as a silly example. NPCs that are adventurers probably have PC classes, straight-up. NPCs that aren't adventurers (town guard, court wizard, cloistered cleric, etc.) just are what they are and they're written up to fit their role. If pressed, though, I could probably convert any NPC to a PC class if, say, a PC died/retired and it made sense to allow the player to take over the NPC.As a note, trying to meticulously apply PC rules to NPCs was part of what burned me out on DMing 3.5E. By the time we got to 15th level of a pure home-brew game, it took me more time to craft a single all-human adversary encounter than we spent playing a whole session. The "whatever goes" NPC builds for 4E killed that edition for my group. The coup de grace was an Eberron adventure from Dragon that had an agent of the Aurum who could control PC actions with ridiculous frequency (either high recharge or at-will); when a player asked how he could get that ability and I had to answer, "You can't, no matter level or focus" it really soured things.So far, 5E seems to be a happy medium. You can see how NPCs could be built from PC classes, most of the time, but it's easy enough to tweak something here or there without breaking anything.</blockquote>

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