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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 6737534" data-attributes="member: 6801286">When I write for my campaign, I always include short descriptions of characters. I don't fill an entire page with one character description. All that I want to nail down is their personality, brief history, and appearance. So I could probably fit about 10 of these on a single page.This is important, because I want to make sure that every time my players meet an npc, he/she still looks the same. And I have a lot of npc's, so it is easy to lose track of them.An example description would be something like this:As you can see, some descriptions are a bit more wordy than others. Not all npc's have complicated backstories or lengthy descriptions. Sometimes I would add a later paragraph to clarify further details surrounding a historical event, or location that is mentioned in the description of an npc.When it comes to describing countries and cities, I tend to get a lot more wordy. There's a lot you can say about what a place looks like, and what its distinguishing landmarks are. I'm perfectly satisfied with describing a city in one page of text. I also tend to make a list of all the important locations that can be found there, and the names of the npc's that live or work there. This is something I always fall back on, when the players ask if there's a <insert any location> here. I write down some names for various taverns and their owners, and write down the usual locations that players tend to be interested in, such as a blacksmith and magic shop. I make sure I have all the names ready, so I don't have to come up up with a good name during the session.This reminds me of a DM I once played with, who ran a campaign where every npc we encountered was called John. Yeah, don't be that guy please. Prepare a list of names and places.</blockquote>

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