Has anyone started assembling some sample NPC stat blocks for use by DMs?
With PF1 I made extensive use of the example NPC stat blocks on d20PFSRD, cutting and pasting them into Word and then modifying specific spell or feat choices, rather than statting up NPCs by hand. I have a game coming up in a week and was hoping to find some low-level NPC stat blocks ready to use somewhere.
There are NPCs in both of the PF2 adventures released this month; the first AP book and the module. I've used those as guidance in creating my statblocks.
Our groups use statblocks instead of character sheets, so this was pretty important for us.
Sorry, just to be clear, the blocks in the books are for NPCs but they're not "Core race with core levels" statblocks. They're not terribly different from any other monster statblock.
I just went through the four PF2 adventures currently in my downloads and cut & pasted all the NPCs (or almost NPCs) I could find into a two-collumn, five-page word document. I've got
- a human fighter lvl 2
- a halfling rogue lvl 3
- two rangers, lvl 2 and 4
- three commoners of indeterminate level (probably zero or 1st)
- a druid (looks like 1st)
- two cultists (look like lvl 2 and 4, actually two versions of the same guy)
- three baboon men (look like fighter 1 and cleric 5)
- an elven wizard (looks like 5th or 6th)
- four weird dudes that appear to be lvl 2, 2, 4 and 6.
That's a start, and by pencilling in variants, they can easily represent other NPCs.
I hope some of you forum dwellers will start writing up stat blocks for NPCs of various classes and levels.
Anyone making a NPC stat block repository? I'm currently working on a campaign for my friends and I am making quite a few NPCs that I would add to a library of NPCs.
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There are of course the Pathfinder society pregens of L1 and L5 PCs. You can cover many NPCs by taking those and applying the weak/elite adjustment (and occasionally scrubbing a spell level). I was just doing that for Sandpoint NPCs.
Nope. But I imagine we'll be seeing more and more NPCs on online resources, like Archives of Nethys.
There are already a few NPCs on d20pfsrd.
I have a bunch for my campaign, but for the most part it's just reflavoured / altered base monsters. Hobgoblins have been a blessing to build soldiers, bandits, and captains.
I've just been building NPCs using the character creation guidelines. It works out fine, and has been suggested as one method for creating NPCs.