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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 4353963" data-attributes="member: 61155">NPCs with levels is still perfectly doable - as mentioned, you can take a normal monster and give it a class template, making it elite - but now it has all the power of a monster and of a class, which is pretty awesome. However, you can also make levelled monsters from scratch using the NPC creation rules and the NPC Monster Races in the back of the MM. I just finished putting together a short Epic adventure (mainly to test out the high-level play in 4E), and decided to make it about Yeenoghu, the Demon Prince of Gnolls.  Which meant I got to put together a bunch of high-level Gnolls - and found the system extremely quick and easy, while still turning out some really cool foes. (Gnolls Gninjas, what could be better?) And, of course, if neither of these works (you aren't using the humanoid races who you can easily level, and you don't want to make a monster Elite)... then you go with the power-swap method the DMG recommends, or build a monster of your own to fit the role. But I suspect that will be a last resort, and that usually there will be plenty of other options available to do the job.</blockquote>