NPC Badguy Generation

[Random Axe]

Help! I am going to be DMing a couple of adventures in our 3rd Ed campaign soon, and I am in the middle of stocking the first dungeon. A couple of the bad guys the party will be facing are mid and high-level clerics, mages, fighter-assassin types, etc. Not to mention the more mundane lower-level bad-guy fighters or evil clerics.

Is there a tool or utility out there someone can point me to, that will make it easier to generate these bad-guys quickly, with all their possible likely feats and appropriate skill levels? Frankly it makes no sense for me to build up these NPCs by looking up their first-level skill points total, then finding out how many skill points per level, and then manually building up the skills from there.

There's got to be an easier way to make up bad guys!

 

[green slime]

Help! I am going to be DMing a couple of adventures in our 3rd Ed campaign soon, and I am in the middle of stocking the first dungeon. A couple of the bad guys the party will be facing are mid and high-level clerics, mages, fighter-assassin types, etc. Not to mention the more mundane lower-level bad-guy fighters or evil clerics.

Is there a tool or utility out there someone can point me to, that will make it easier to generate these bad-guys quickly, with all their possible likely feats and appropriate skill levels? Frankly it makes no sense for me to build up these NPCs by looking up their first-level skill points total, then finding out how many skill points per level, and then manually building up the skills from there.

There's got to be an easier way to make up bad guys!

yes, wing it.

seriously, how much use are you going to get out of a minor enemies skill points?

 

[DM_Jeff]

Help! There's got to be an easier way to make up bad guys!

There is. It's called NPC designer. All the details can be found here

http://www.rpgattitude.com/npcdesigner.asp

Have patience navigating the site, get the $15 version, and you will never be dissapointed. Updates are weekly and the crew there is really on making a quality item.

-DM Jeff

 

[wmasters]

Just to second DM Jeff's endorsement of NPC Designer. It's an amazing resource for generating the 'insta-NPC'. You specify what you want, and it gives you an NPC, saving all of the statting. You want a half-elf fiendish sorcerer 12? No problem.

The only downside with it is that it's just the SRD, but there's a yahoogroup where it's being expanded.

If you're going to be statting encounters, it's an amazing timesaver.

EDIT: Another place to look is the PHB II - the back of that has a quick reference guide for a character of x-level, which looks like a useful easy tool.

 

[Random Axe]

Another place to look is the PHB II - the back of that has a quick reference guide for a character of x-level, which looks like a useful easy tool.

By this you mean the back of the PHB v3.5, right?