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<blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 6514364" data-attributes="member: 87576">I had a similar epiphany.I needed to stat up a CR16 NPC for my 3.5E game and, at that level, it's almost impossible to create a legitimate challenge. You either min/max the hell out of it and destroy the PCs or you create something that lasts 1.5 rounds despite taking 3 hours to stat up. I had seen the 4E stat blocks and had quickly skimmed the section of the DMG involving NPC creation. Just as an exercise - and this is starting from scratch - I thought I would see how long it would take to knock up the equivalent NPC in 4E while also teaching myself the rules. An hour later I had that NPC and, other than the update to the maths post-MMIII, that NPC is still usable today.And that was the end of 3.5E for me. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Anyway, I am interested to read about what [MENTION=6668292]JamesonCourage[/MENTION] decides to do with his problem as it might be something I will use in the future.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scrivener of Doom, post: 6514364, member: 87576"] I had a similar epiphany. I needed to stat up a CR16 NPC for my 3.5E game and, at that level, it's almost impossible to create a legitimate challenge. You either min/max the hell out of it and destroy the PCs or you create something that lasts 1.5 rounds despite taking 3 hours to stat up. I had seen the 4E stat blocks and had quickly skimmed the section of the DMG involving NPC creation. Just as an exercise - and this is starting from scratch - I thought I would see how long it would take to knock up the equivalent NPC in 4E while also teaching myself the rules. An hour later I had that NPC and, other than the update to the maths post-MMIII, that NPC is still usable today. And that was the end of 3.5E for me. :) Anyway, I am interested to read about what [MENTION=6668292]JamesonCourage[/MENTION] decides to do with his problem as it might be something I will use in the future. [/QUOTE]

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