Quote Originally Posted by Matthew View Post
Honestly, this is one of the most annoying aspects of 3e. Building a Dungeon with 3e NPCs is going to be time consuming. That's all there really is to it. Your best bet is to hunt around for already created NPCs and alter them to suit your purpose. If you have access to any published adventures, loot them for stuff.
I frequently do this. If there is a NPC type you need, who is not going to be a several adventure spanning baddie that actually needs a distinct personality, then you can also just do a search around on the Wizard sites. The Elite Opponents and NPC Focus posts that will pop up should give you several decent NPC's that should take you all of 5 mins to tweak into what you want.