Building NPCs

[Ed Reppert]

I have no experience doing this, with or without HeroLab, so I thought I'd take a shot at building Kanker, an NPC from Seven Dooms For Sandpoint. My first shot was to use the "Detailed Monster or NPC using Game Mastery Guide" option. Seems to be going well, but.. Kanker is described as a "Male ghast alchemist". He's level 12. The level part I can do. But it looks like I have to pick and choose alchemist abilities rather than pick an option that says "12th level alchemist". Am I reading it right? Would it be better to start with the "player character rules" option? Although if I did that I'd have to figure out how to make him a ghast. Anyway, what say you?