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Originally Posted by trooper6
Like you, I tend to stat out all the major NPCs. But I don't stat up everyone. Because that doesn't seem necessary to me. And if someone who is random becomes necessary, then I stat it up. And even my "statless" NPCs are quasi-statted because I work from ideas of baseline people.
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And even then, there are may different levels of "stating up" NPCs. There's no fundamental difference between "Has a mindblast, resisted by Will, causes uncosiousness" and "Affliction, Malediction, Unconsciousness, Psionic [48pts] (or whatever it costs)"
When stating up NPCs the basic description is all that is absolutely necessary; there's no need to take that basic description of effects and map it into the character creation rule unless the ability is something that the PCs will be able to use/learn/acquire. When people say "you don't need to stat that up" what they generally mean is "your description of what it does is all the stats you need."