HellHound
ENnies winner and NOT Scrappy Doo
While I haven't quite finished the update for the Ambient Inc d20 website ( http://www.dreadgazebo.com/dnd )*, I just couldn't sit on this for ever...
So here is the production mock-up of the cover for Everyone Else, a book of generic NPCs for use in any fantasy d20 RPG.
This is a "rogues gallery" of NPCs useable in just about any game. Each NPC archetype such as the bartender is given a full description, some rules of thumb to remember as well as stat blocks for a typical member of that profession at levels 1, 3, 5 and 7. The assumption is that any NPC of higher than level 7 is going to have one hell of a backstory and the DM should go through the effort of detailing the character himself.
In the case of a bartender, for instance, the character is listed a having levels in the Expert class, and the four full stat blocks are given as such including exactly what bonuses the character has in what skills.
The goal here is to be able to just "plonk" a statblock out of the book wherever needed in an adventure. Getting hassled by the tax collector? PLONK... level 3 Expert with all the right skills and stats for being a tax collector coming right up. Players decide to complain about the tax collector to the local constabulary? PLONK... level 5 warriror with the right skills and stats for the town guard at your service... Time to go over his head and take matters up with the prince? PLONK... first you have to work your way past the level 1 and level 7 seneschals that run the palace before you can meet... PLONK... the level 5 aristocrat (idle noble) that supposedly runs this town that the players were only supposed to be in to restock their rations...
* assuming of course that the server hosting the domain is up... lately the downtime has been somewhat out of control. Another site on the same server keeps crashing it according to the techs
Edit: Typo fever!
So here is the production mock-up of the cover for Everyone Else, a book of generic NPCs for use in any fantasy d20 RPG.
This is a "rogues gallery" of NPCs useable in just about any game. Each NPC archetype such as the bartender is given a full description, some rules of thumb to remember as well as stat blocks for a typical member of that profession at levels 1, 3, 5 and 7. The assumption is that any NPC of higher than level 7 is going to have one hell of a backstory and the DM should go through the effort of detailing the character himself.
In the case of a bartender, for instance, the character is listed a having levels in the Expert class, and the four full stat blocks are given as such including exactly what bonuses the character has in what skills.
The goal here is to be able to just "plonk" a statblock out of the book wherever needed in an adventure. Getting hassled by the tax collector? PLONK... level 3 Expert with all the right skills and stats for being a tax collector coming right up. Players decide to complain about the tax collector to the local constabulary? PLONK... level 5 warriror with the right skills and stats for the town guard at your service... Time to go over his head and take matters up with the prince? PLONK... first you have to work your way past the level 1 and level 7 seneschals that run the palace before you can meet... PLONK... the level 5 aristocrat (idle noble) that supposedly runs this town that the players were only supposed to be in to restock their rations...
* assuming of course that the server hosting the domain is up... lately the downtime has been somewhat out of control. Another site on the same server keeps crashing it according to the techs
Edit: Typo fever!
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