With the NPC Gallery no longer in GM Core (It's still available in the Gamemastery guide of course) knowing how to design NPCs is a bit more important! GM Core has a great section on NPC creation with some really good class road maps to assist if you're creating one based on PC classes and advice for non-PC class NPCs.
I usually build an NPC just like a PC, with added abilities to give the players a surprise or two. Foundry's NPC "character sheet" doesn't allow you to add class or racial abilities (as far as I can tell), so I just use the PC character sheets to build them
Based of what you had said and explained It seems that the NPC design system from the Pathfinder 2e is lacking when making anything other that NPCs with character classes.
It is certainly easier and more straightforward to make one off a a PC class for sure. I wouldn't necessarily say it's lacking but definitely quite a bit easier. The NPC gallery (although not in GM Core but still available with the pre-Remaster Gamemastery guide) helps with non-class based NPCs but everyone's opinion may vary. Don
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With the NPC Gallery no longer in GM Core (It's still available in the Gamemastery guide of course) knowing how to design NPCs is a bit more important! GM Core has a great section on NPC creation with some really good class road maps to assist if you're creating one based on PC classes and advice for non-PC class NPCs.
For folks who are JUST listening: in the section on building NPC like PCs, at 9:53 you SAID “no more than 1 modifier at +1”, but the image shows +4.
Hmmm... I'll have to fix that when I can. Thanks!
Don
I was able to remove the section but not replace it.
The big take away should be pf2e moved away from how NPCs and monsters are built differently then previous editions.
I usually build an NPC just like a PC, with added abilities to give the players a surprise or two. Foundry's NPC "character sheet" doesn't allow you to add class or racial abilities (as far as I can tell), so I just use the PC character sheets to build them
Thanks for the comment!
That's a great tip actually and thanks for bringing it up!
Don
Based of what you had said and explained It seems that the NPC design system from the Pathfinder 2e is lacking when making anything other that NPCs with character classes.
It is certainly easier and more straightforward to make one off a a PC class for sure. I wouldn't necessarily say it's lacking but definitely quite a bit easier. The NPC gallery (although not in GM Core but still available with the pre-Remaster Gamemastery guide) helps with non-class based NPCs but everyone's opinion may vary.
Don