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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 6054198" data-attributes="member: 6678119">As someone who regularly gets hung up on PC creation being perfect, I'll echo the idea that NPC creation doesn't have to be.  For example, chances are the things your party is about to kill won't be using skills unless you've decided to spruce things up with skill tricks from Complete Scoundrel.What level of play do you expect your group to do?  Do they do extensive theorycrafting for their characters to make them more powerful?  Or are they more lax about things and want to simplify the creation process?  Those two things will of course change how you do encounters.  Lowering HP and increasing damage or DCs of spells et al would of course help to make encounters shorter, but it's possible the players could eke more from their characters if they wanted to.Have you heard of the tier system?  It's fairly decent for judging how certain classes will perform if they're moderately optimized.  It gets thrown out the window of course when you can optimize such that a Fighter 20 can cast 9th level spells.You'll probably want to limit source books at the start, then expand when you're comfortable with the extra rules from some other places.  3.E is a cluster**** of odd rules that really add up, and it can get into territory that will literally break the game.</blockquote>