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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6038511" data-attributes="member: 6668292">The charts mean it takes about 5 minutes to make something. If you're the type of person to do so beforehand, is this much worse than making monsters in 4e? And if you're not the type to do so beforehand, isn't it useful to pick hit die, level of focus, and get a useful number?Then your "no system" will be completely unsatisfactory to them anyways.Make it explicit that you can pick a method. Go into the ups and downs of each, and let people pick.Talk about burnout from writing everything up in detail, but how it can let you see a full NPC and let you play "fairly" with PCs. Talk about the ups of shortcuts (my charts), including on the fly NPCs/Monsters or just saving time, but the lack of detail (feats, etc.) that means you lose a lot of details. Talk about how just giving an NPC a bonus in something is sometimes all that is required (or even appropriate) and that it won't waste a lot of your time you could be spending on something else, but that it leaves little room for the NPC to contribute in other ways (though you can always flesh it out later).Just make it explicit, and more in-depth than what I just wrote up.You can do exactly that? I'm just proposing a middle ground, too. You have "no system, just pick what you like", "shortcut to writing everything out, but will be less detailed", and "write everything up yourself, and get maximum detail". I'm just not convinced that "no system only" is somehow superior.</blockquote>

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