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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Astrosicebear" data-source="post: 5811080" data-attributes="member: 67017">The main issue with 3E design was that everyone tried to follow the same rules.  You want to advance a rat? Well advance it this much, increase hit dice, calculate out the BAB, add abilities based on hit die, etc.  Sure you could 'fudge' it and give the rat say 50 hit points and guess at the BAB, but then you might slaughter your players, or they will complain it wasnt fair.  And good luck trying to make a 3E 12th lvl caster NPC in under a half hour (without pcgens or such).  Gear alone could take hours.4E said to hell with things being fair, and made them easy.  The online char builder let you create NPC's of any level with ease.  Monster design was simplistic and it made building encounters not focus so much on the monster design, but the encounter design itself (terrain, traps etc).I'd like to see 5E follow the 4th trends, and it seems to be doing well.  If a 2e module can be adapted on the fly, then I have good hopes.  NPC's can be as easy or complex as the DM would like, and it seems that they can be created on the fly with ease with the core rules that we've guessed at.  If you want a 5E NPC, it might even be as simple as pick thier stats, and you then have everything you need.</blockquote>