D&D 5E Adventurer's Gallery: NPC List, would there be an interest?

Sacrosanct

Legend

• Nov 8, 2016

• #1

Simple question. Would there be an interest in something like this? A modern take on the old Rogue's Gallery book. There would be 5 PCs of varying races of every class, going from level 1 to level 20 each. So 60 total NPCs. Maybe 100 NPCs if you throw in multi-classing (which would be a tad more complex to do)

Sample:

 

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LordEntrails

Hero

• Nov 8, 2016

• #2

Not for me.

 

flametitan

Explorer

• Nov 8, 2016

• #3

I'd like to see a few more examples before I take the plunge, but if they have distinct and memorable personalities it might be worth it.

 

Sacrosanct

Legend

• Nov 8, 2016

• #4

Admittedly it's pretty much a DM only product, to grab NPCs when you need them.

 

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JRedmond

Explorer

• Nov 8, 2016

• #5

https://nordgamesllc.com/product/ultimate-npcs-skulduggery/

 

Morrus

Well, that was fun

Staff member

• Nov 8, 2016

• #6

Yeah, Nord Games did that recently. I don't have a copy, so I don't know how good it is.

 

Croesus

Adventurer

• Nov 8, 2016

• #7

Sacrosanct said:

Admittedly it's pretty much a DM only product, to grab NPCs when you need them.

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I run three types of NPCs:

1) Party NPCs, whom I create to fill a niche, such as healer. I intentionally design them to be secondary characters, so generic NPCs wouldn't help here.
2) Opponents, for which I use the MM design template. In other words, stripped down, with just a couple class abilities. Much simpler to run as GM.
3) Non-combatants.

So a product such as you're proposing would be of limited use to me. Sorry for the negative feedback.

 

Sacrosanct

Legend

• Nov 8, 2016

• #8

Croesus said:

I run three types of NPCs:

1) Party NPCs, whom I create to fill a niche, such as healer. I intentionally design them to be secondary characters, so generic NPCs wouldn't help here.
2) Opponents, for which I use the MM design template. In other words, stripped down, with just a couple class abilities. Much simpler to run as GM.
3) Non-combatants.

So a product such as you're proposing would be of limited use to me. Sorry for the negative feedback.

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No need to apologize. It's good feedback because it addresses my question. Thanks!

 

Sacrosanct

Legend

• Nov 8, 2016

• #9

JRedmond said:

https://nordgamesllc.com/product/ultimate-npcs-skulduggery/

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Ah. Well, I was going to do a lot more than they have, at every level range, and make it free.

But good points above about actual useability by DMs

 

nexalis

Numinous Hierophant

• Nov 8, 2016

• #10

Rogue's Gallery was one of my favorite supplements when it first came out. That had a lot less to do with the generic stats than it did with the background write-ups for characters like Bigby, Erac's Cousin, Lassiviren, Mordenkainen, etc. I derived a lot of inspiration from those characters. It provided fuel for my imagination.