For the past few years, I have been assigning the NPC's stats as I saw fit.  Very rarely did I roll out anything.    If they had Heightend Strength, I picked the number to add to the attribute that I had picked.  The past few games  I began realise that the villains  I  have been making up are wussess.    So today I rolled out everything but the level.  I wanted to assign that still.    I assigned the powers too, as I had a concept in mind,  but everything else is rolled out.  The strentghs, the heightened attributes, etc... 

And they are not wussess...hehe...


I made about ten new villains today for the next few adventures and I updated a few sheets for NPCs that I have been using often ( chess agents, friendly heroes).

   Now to write up the actual adventure!

This brings me to a question, when you make up NPC's, do you roll out everything?  Assign everything, or a bit of each?

Back in the day, I usually picked the starting SEAIC attributes and powers. But for fun, I would randomly roll the bonuses for heightened abilities, heightened speed, invulnerability, etc., and the charges/ranges on devices. With robots/androids it was a hoot to see how human they looked (and how much heavier a robot was and the amount of internal repair the android had. If I wanted to assign a reduced ability, I'd randomly roll how low it was.

If a strange virus or radiation was unleashed into the populous, I would randomly roll what powers/weanesses were incurred. It was fun.

Early, early on, one campaign one of the players wanted to know what heroes were active across the globe. I hadn't throught things through that far at the time. So the players and I decided to sit down and basically decide about how many active heroes there should be in different parts of the world, then randomly rolled their powers (assuming that would be in their superhero database). I think I went later on and randomly rolled up everyone's stats. There was something very fresh about not orchestrating everything.