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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taralan" data-source="post: 4541187" data-attributes="member: 17504">I believe WoTC did a good job simplify the task for DM's with the fourth edition.However, they seem to have increased the complexity tremendously for players, who like mine, may want a simple class to play from time to time to concentrate on role-playing and are not always willing to juggle 15 different powers during play, let alone during character creation.Last night, one of my PC died and the player took over an NPC for the rest of the evening and seemed to enjoy it much more than his regular character. He liked the simplicity of the stat block and seemed "liberated" in a way.Now what if, as a kind of "basic" option, players were allowed to design their character as NPC's ? What would be the ramifications ? Would they be underpowered, would other adjustments need to be made (maybe the amount of healing surges) . Could this work even if other players enjoy the "advanced form of the PC or would everyone need to use this option to keep some modicum of balance ?It seem we have here the kernel of an idea that would be very simple and could go a long way to reconcile some poeple with 4th edition. But maybe I am missing all kinds of problems.</blockquote>