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Message: <blockquote data-quote="harmyn" data-source="post: 2847937" data-attributes="member: 13511">What is harder about prep time? Umm.... Everything stat related.How do you use NPC adversaries as stock? Major NPCs require you to go through and choose feats and skills that might be relevant along with appropriate gear and relevant spells or special abilities that will need to be noted. And as the players get higher in level this becomes much more involved and complex if you are trying to create an actual challenge. Also advancing a wolf doesn't appeal to you? Fair enough. Of course you did choose a mundane monster as an example. What about fiendish and celestial templates? Dire monsters? Never use a troll with a character class other than the example given? Allow the players to take half-dragon template but never use it for the baddies? Are all of your vampires and liches the same then? These would also be created much like characters by the time you are done if you want them to have any individual flavor under the 3.x rules. Even dragons out of the box require customization for feat choices and spells to represent their abilitites.I don't generally advance wolves myself. But the half-celestial Troll hybrid took some time to stat out. As did the 16th level cleric the characters had to face some time back. Also the heavily armored knight took some time to complete just to map out his feats for the correct effect.I'm sorry, but you will never convince me that prep for a game is no harder in 3.x than it was in any of the previous editions. Look at the stat block alone. There is a lot more to calculate and note than ever before.I can and do enjoy playing the new rules and have made adventures for characters over a span of levels 1 thru 17 in it so far. But there is a great deal more to prep and notations on purely mechanical things than ever before.</blockquote>

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