GM Question: How do you handle combat using an NPC that is a specific class?

I'm running the Dead Suns AP, and there are some NPC's in the adventure later on (books 3 and 4) that are a specific class (operative in this case). Not gonna mention which one so I don't spoil anything, but how do you handle the operative actions for an NPC.

If it were a PC, I know how i'd program the effects and dmg and so on (i've already done those for most of my players)... but I fail to see how I can add that to an NPC so it's clickable in the combat tracker (or even the NPC sheet). Is this something that's even possible? For now, I just do the rolls I need with the dice in the chat box and do some manual calculations to see if trick attack works, or whatever class specific action i'm doing.

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Originally Posted by Daso

I'm running the Dead Suns AP, and there are some NPC's in the adventure later on (books 3 and 4) that are a specific class (operative in this case). Not gonna mention which one so I don't spoil anything, but how do you handle the operative actions for an NPC.

If it were a PC, I know how i'd program the effects and dmg and so on (i've already done those for most of my players)... but I fail to see how I can add that to an NPC so it's clickable in the combat tracker (or even the NPC sheet). Is this something that's even possible? For now, I just do the rolls I need with the dice in the chat box and do some manual calculations to see if trick attack works, or whatever class specific action i'm doing.

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Sadly this is not yet possible, you can roll the Skill from the NPC sheet and then go from there: Programm Trick Attack (or whatever else you need) into a "spell" in the spell list so you can apply it with one click and then do the attack as usual (from the combat tracker or from the NPC sheet.