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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greybar" data-source="post: 371817" data-attributes="member: 4938">Time to plug Johnn Four's "NPC Essentials", I guess. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />VIP NPCs get stats, probably like the PCs 28-ish buy with GM special fudge sauce as needed.Combat baddies have stats straight off of the book or an automatic generator.  Three cheers for the NPC Generator!That little boy who tugged on your cloak and asked if you're a hero?  Well, he's a shapechanged bad nasty, so he has stats.But, if he was really a little boy he wouldn't have any stats at all.  He doesn't have a Will save or Sense Motive skill - If you try to convince him of something, you will, because you're a big impressive hero and he's a little boy.  He doesn't have hit points - If you so much as slap him, he'll fall down crying and you'll have mondo bad rep among the townfolk in 5 seconds flat.The herbalist has a Wisdom score and a couple skills due to her work, and she miraculously was manufactured a Charisma score because you asked if she was cute.John</blockquote>