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Message: <blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3875227" data-attributes="member: 48586">This has been stated somewhere before, but I couldn't tell you where. The NPCs for Pathfinder were created with a "what makes sense" mentallity rather than mechanical optimization. Meaning, their backgrounds and roles in the adventures are the key to their design, not making them all bruisers optimized for a fight, necessarily. Note: this doesn't extend to ALL NPCs like a blanket statement. Obviously, the big baddies should indeed be optimally designed. I haven't combed the stats on the fight encounters enough to weigh in on whether or not they're up to snuff. However, I've heard complaints that the quasit in Burnt Offerings was nigh impossible to defeat and the haunts in The Skinsaw Murders were horrible individual PC deaths just waiting to happen. From just a brief perusal of The Hook Mountain Massacre, there's some really tough encounters in there. Mind you, the above isn't all NPCs I'm suggesting are lethal challenges. But the point is, again, most of the NPCs are designed the way they are intentionally with story in mind.</blockquote>