So far in my campaign, I've been using Bestiary monsters and NPC Codex baddies, but I feet its about time I learn to make my own adversaries. I plan for the next bad guy to be a fourth or fifth level elf druid. I can make a druid PC with no problem, but using a stat block in combat is so much easier than a character sheet. My question is this: Do you have any tips on writing up stat blocks? The last time I tried, I copied the sample archer NPC stat block from the book, changing abilities where appropriate for my own NPC, but it just didn't seem right. Any advice?
find a stat block format you like, and go ahead and create said druid/companions using a char sheet if you more comfortable that way. then copy the information over. (dont worry about writing ALL the spells over, just the prepared ones/prebuff ones.)