Building NPCs

[Greyfeld85]

I've gotten away with just guestimating some of my NPCs general stat allocation in my PBP game, but I'm fast approaching a situation where I'm going to have to actually hammer out a full character from top to bottom.

So, for the experienced GMs out there, should I just stick with an elite array for NPCs, or is there a better way to determine ability scores for non-player characters?

This will especially be important for determining the stats on future Big Bads as well.

[Thurbane]

Speaking for myself, I always use the elite array for NPCs, including BBEGs. I suppose if you wanted to make a BBEG more challenging, you could use 32 point buy or something similar.