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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 1009266" data-attributes="member: 1165">Yes.You need lots of prep time. Designing high-level NPCs is difficult. Not all the fighters should have the same feats, not all spellcasters should have the same spells, items should be different, etc.Once I create an NPC, I want to use them. However, it's unrealistic for the NPC to &quot;just happen&quot; to be where the players are or for them all to use Scry/Teleport to show up in the same town, etc.Those new NPC tables in the DMG help - except the rogue and monk tables, which threaten to drive me up the wall. Don't those guys ever get Weapon Finesse? (I have to use an NPC generator for some multi-class combinations, and I will probably never find a 3.5 monk generator.)It's possible to overcompensate and use an encounter that's too difficult - sometimes players don't have the appropriate resource, but they had an unexpected one for each previous encounter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 1009266, member: 1165"] Yes. You need lots of prep time. Designing high-level NPCs is difficult. Not all the fighters should have the same feats, not all spellcasters should have the same spells, items should be different, etc. Once I create an NPC, I want to use them. However, it's unrealistic for the NPC to "just happen" to be where the players are or for them all to use Scry/Teleport to show up in the same town, etc. Those new NPC tables in the DMG help - except the rogue and monk tables, which threaten to drive me up the wall. Don't those guys ever get Weapon Finesse? (I have to use an NPC generator for some multi-class combinations, and I will probably never find a 3.5 monk generator.) It's possible to overcompensate and use an encounter that's too difficult - sometimes players don't have the appropriate resource, but they had an unexpected one for each previous encounter. [/QUOTE]

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