Do you use Npc classes for your Npcs?

[Stalker0]

My first poll, so I'll try to make it good. In your game, do you use the npc classes for your npcs, or do you default to the regular PC classes?

I never use npc classes myself, I find the regular pc classes with less gold are good enough.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I said "on occasion," but I should clarify.

I don't stat up the vast majority of my NPCs. The halfling who runs the gladiatorial arena? The merchant rival of the PC sorcerer's father? The military governor of the occupying armies? None of these are people the PCs are going to engage in one-on-one combat. I have a sense of what level their important skills are, if I need to make an opposed Sense Motive check or the like, but I see no reason to take the time to stat them up at all.

Of those NPCs who do get stats, most use adventuring classes, because they're important characters and/or intended for combat. I use NPC classes rarely, but I do use them.

 

[DragonLancer]

With the exception of commoner and aristocrat, I never use them.

 

[Dog Moon]

I said "on occasion," but I should clarify.

I don't stat up the vast majority of my NPCs. The halfling who runs the gladiatorial arena? The merchant rival of the PC sorcerer's father? The military governor of the occupying armies? None of these are people the PCs are going to engage in one-on-one combat. I have a sense of what level their important skills are, if I need to make an opposed Sense Motive check or the like, but I see no reason to take the time to stat them up at all.

Of those NPCs who do get stats, most use adventuring classes, because they're important characters and/or intended for combat. I use NPC classes rarely, but I do use them.

I voted for 'never' despite having a very similar view as Mouseferatu. I use them rare enough so that it is essentially never, nowhere near often enough to be considered as 'occasional.'

 

[Psion]

On occasion. Which is to say that I do list NPCs as having these classes, but most of them that are significant enough to stat out don't.

As a side note, I don't use the adept, preferring to use sorcerers and green ronin shamans in their stead.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

I said never. If an NPC is worth stating out he doesn't have NPC class levels.

 

[Vascant]

I use NPC Designer, so all NPCs get stat blocks though as for what class it really depends on what fits best.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I couldn't vote.

When I used to run DnD, I never used NPC classes.

For D20 Modern, which I run now, I use them fairly often. Of course they're weaker than their CR indicates, but they're not crippled the way NPC classes are in DnD.

 

[The Shaman]

Yes, my three-point-oh campaign featured many NPCs statted with NPCs classes - some of them had levels in more than one NPC class, and a few had levels in both an NPC and a PC class. Non-player characters other than BBEGs were also created using just PC classes, if it was appropriate for them to be so.

 

[Shadowslayer]

I'll use adepts and warriors a fair bit...usually for humanoids and low-level goombahs. And warriors for average militiamen and such.

But non-combat seeing NPCs dont get statted. Life's too short.