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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vascant" data-source="post: 1861179" data-attributes="member: 13927">As far as the source goes, I have looked at it before and found they do not follow their own example in many cases so I disregarded and have pretty much focused on either recent statblocks published by wizards and a few other notable writers as a guideline.  As I said, the idea is to be able to reproduce what they do, without the effort or time.  I do like the idea dealing with spells however, since I am an "options" kind of guy when I upgrade the current spell system I have to the new one in my mind, I will allow for the options to enforce certain things, like no spell with a casting time over 1 round, 1 attack spell per spell level, 1 defense spell per spell level.  I want to stay away from trying to get people to design NPC's a certain way and more, allowing people to design NPC's their own way, just faster.Chaining feats:  After I am finished testing feat selection and feel it is what I am aiming for, I will add this bit of code.  When certain feats are selected, they can modify the chance to get other feats.  An example, lets say if you had this in place and the NPC selected Spell Craft, the system will automatically increase Greater spell focus from Rare to Uncommon.  I think this accomplishes what you are stating and also keeps with a certain amount of flavor.  The one thing I have noticed with using this tool, even at this stage.  When I create an NPC and look over the results, my mind instantly starts creating a story how he came to be this way.  Just like when someone asked me about certain NPC dwarf had a few ranks in swimming, I immediately began spinning a tale of how the old warriors brother almost drown when a mine caved in and landed in the middle of an underground lake, he swore the mine would never get the better of him like that.  Thanks for your ideas <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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