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Old 12-30-2009, 03:21 PM   #44
DouglasCole
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Default Re: Resolved,There is no point to statting up anything that is not a PC

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Originally Posted by jeff_wilson View Post
I don't have a problem with this sort of streamlined, shorthand statting, because you are re-using small numbers of simple traits that are already well established and worked out, so that anything not detailed can be expected to be at default value with little or no loss of accuracy. The same thing couldn't be said of more varied and capable adversaries like Anita Blake's monster parade or Lords of the Sith.
All of the big players in the larger arc of the same campaign had full character sheets.

these days, I'd be most likely to get major stats, key Ads and disads, possibly five or so major skills, and something that tells me a primary and secondary motivation for the NPC.
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