Custom NPCs in Campaign

[Sjmarshall]

Originally Posted by dacoobob

Campaign Mode updates have been coming quick and fast since they released the beta, hopefully a simpler method for custom npc/monster creation will be added soon.

in the meantime, by far the easiest way is to use Stand-Ins. from the Cast Members screen, click Add, then Create New, then in the Type drop-down menu select PC Stand-In. then you can type in the creature's attack bonuses, AC, HP, saves, etc directly rather than screwing around with building everything from scratch and adding a bunch of adjustments and overrides.

I agree if that's all you're worried about tracking are those basic stats. If you want all your abilities, spells, attacks, etc. managed in HLO or the campaign theater module then there's a way to accomplish that too. The only disadvantage to the Stand in is that it's for PCs only, so scripts won't work as well with that approach. In order to use the scripts and the resolve scene features you can create a basic NPC stand-in using what I described above if you don't want to spend the time creating the NPC with everything.