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Classed NPC Quick Build Guide (5e)

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Mark Stout

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$2.49

Want to create non-player characters based on a class without spending hours working on them?

This is the guide you've been waiting for.

The Classed NPC Quick Build Guide contains notes on creating class-based NPCs, over 190 pages of stat blocks for every character class in the Player's Handbook with select archetypes from the Player's Handbook and Xanathar's Guide to Everything, and ranging even-numbered levels from 2 to 20, along with tables of basic personality traits, ideals, and flaws to give your NPCs a start on the road to infamy.

This guide will save you that most precious of commodities - time - and let you spend it creating a world of adventure and intrigue for your players.

Update: Added new archetypes from Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

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Lindsay R January 31, 2021 2:50 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Mark, is there a way I can contact you directly? I've converted all the NPCs to Fantasy Grounds for my own use, and would like to make it available to you.

Stephen C February 20, 2020 9:47 am UTC

PURCHASER

Thanks for this, it's a really great guide and does a lot of the legwork while still following the guidelines for making NPCs laid out in the DMG.

The only thing that I could think of that would make this better is if it existed as a compendium on roll20 (same could be said for other virtual table tops I imagine). As it stands I'll have to copy and paste stat blocks out of this book and add them to entries in roll20. If however it were sold on the roll20 marketplace as a book containing stat blocks I could just pick a stat block directly and then edit and racial features and I'd be done, significantly cutting down on my prep time and making it possible to provide NPCs truly on the fly if I wanted to. This would be INVALUABLE and something I would definitely pay money for, and I'll bet a lot of other people would to.

Callum S October 23, 2019 11:24 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Are you making any more like this, maybe for monsters? Or a further expansion? This is by far one of the most useful pieces I've found on here

Joseph B June 15, 2018 11:42 am UTC

PURCHASER

I really like this tool. One question: under "How to Use This Product" on page 2, there's reference to a section on NPC race, but I don't find that section in the copy I downloaded. Page 3 has the "build examples", and page 4 starts out the stat blocks. Am I missing a section?

Mark S June 15, 2018 9:57 pm UTC

CREATOR

Hi Joseph. The section refers to the NPC Features table on page 282 of the Dungeon Masters Guide. That table lists racial features for all major Player's Handbook races except Human. I added a section for Humans, but didn't reprint the other race info from the DMG, because copyright issues.

Glad you like the guide!

Philip R September 13, 2016 2:40 am UTC

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Amazing. Should be x10 the price given it's value.

D Jeremy B June 23, 2016 6:32 pm UTC

PURCHASER

This is a great resource for any DM.

Mark S June 28, 2016 5:41 am UTC

CREATOR

Thanks! Glad you're finding it useful.

Jeremy T June 03, 2016 6:49 am UTC

PURCHASER

This is great, thank you! One thing worth noting: my DMG has the NPC Features table on p. 282 and the Monsters with Classes on p. 283. You have them listed as p. 182 and 183.

Mark S June 05, 2016 1:54 am UTC

CREATOR

Thanks Jeremy! I'll correct those page references.