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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ravilah" data-source="post: 7649240" data-attributes="member: 19724">I had a 3.5 D&D gaming group that loved interacting with NPCs. They chatted up every shopkeeper, blacksmith, herbologiist, beggar, town guard, or hermit they came across. They liked getting to know people, and they remembered the people they met. I had keep a folder with lists of the NPC's names and a record of their previous interactions. Some very enjoyable sessions centered completely around catching up with old friends from cities they hadn't visited in a while. So I started making these interactions into challenges worthy of experience. I pushed the responsibility of remembering all their NPC acquaintances back on them. The team archer had to remember that he flirted with Jayme the Barmaid last time he was in Calthan's Point. They had to recall that Darl the Blacksmith hates people who don't haggle. They had to remember the Red-Haired Elf's name or he'd get offended. I would purposely pose memory challenges like this, and they could get experience for how well they used their past experiences with these NPCs to either strengthen or ruin their connections with them.The party loved it. They started to take notes on all their connections, and it added another dimension to that whole game.</blockquote>