Quickly creating mooks

[Malaqai]

Hi playgrounders. I've recently begun running my own campaign, and it's been a blast - however, I find that in the planning stages I spend the majority of my time creating stats for minor rather than creating encounters! Part of the problem is that a lot of the denizens of my campaign are creatures that I want to add some class levels to. Do you guys have any tips for rapidly throwing such creatures together?

Thanks!

*This is a pathfinder campaign if that's important

[KillianHawkeye]

The only way I can think of to be able to do this quickly is to come up with some "templates" for common classes and levels that you want to add to a creature. For example, you can have one that is basically 3 levels of Fighter and you just come up with a list of adjustments like "+3 to Attacks, + X hit points, two Feats (and then have a list of pairs of Feats you can choose from), skills, saves, et cetera." Then it becomes fairly easy to add three levels of Fighter to any monster you want.