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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 5424023" data-attributes="member: 9213">Understand that it doesnt takes that long for me and I'm not saying that youre doing anything wrong. I'm just saying that there are ways to prep for Pathfinder that dont take 2.5 hours per NPC. I use HERO LAB which takes me about 10 - 15 min to put together an NPC if I already have the concept in mind. If I dont and I'm just playing around it takes longer. That's from starting the program to printing the stat block or character sheet. For spells and such I mostly cut and paste from the Pathfinder Core RuleBook PDf into a word document then CUSTOMIZE the spell for that NPC so that Duration, Effect and Damage are specific to that NPC. You can do the same thing if you dont have the PDF's by using the <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/" target="_blank">Online Pathfinder SRD</a>. This method takes a little longer but still no where NEAR 2.5 hours again if you already have your concept in mind. Right now I'm running my players through Curse of the Crimson Throne using Pathfinder, this AP was originally 3.5, but between redoing some of the NPC's in Pathfinder using Hero Lab and using he updated monsters from the Bestiary (Printing out the monster pages from the Bestiary PDF) It takes me very little time to be ready for a session in terms of getting together statblocks and such.Again I understand that these are my methods, but I'm also just saying that these are some of the things that save me time even when I'm NOT using a pre-existing source (i.e. like a module/AP)</blockquote>

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