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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King_Stannis" data-source="post: 325145" data-attributes="member: 324">I'd gladly pay $20 or so for a meaty book, no color, but sketches of each NPC. i'm thinking along the lines of those Call of Cthulu "headshots" they sprinkled in their later (pre D20) adventures. i envisioned 2 npc's per page, joe. that includes a "headshot", 2 para bio, and a stat line IF APPLICABLE. in other words, ebeneezer, the 88 year old town drunk needs no stats! it would take a publisher with common sense like that. don't waste room on ebeneezer's useless stats, throw in another line about why he is a drunk and who in town is trying to save his soul by getting him to put down the bottle. i'd also like a tiny checkbox to markoff once you use these suckers, too. perhaps a little room in the margins for some notes. the more i talk about this, the more i think this would be a huge hit with DM's. but it would have to be meaty, in other words if you buy this book once you should have enough NPC's for YEARS of gaming. that's why i'd say to put in at least 200, if not 250 NPC's.i wonder if any publisher would be able to resist giving margarite, the town prostitute - excuse me, ONE of MANY town prostitutes - a pair of magic boots or a decanter of endless water, though?i'm glad that THG is thinking of doing this, they are pretty good. the title unsettles me a little, though. uncommon commoners? i'm not sure. the whole point is that these folks are common commoners! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> oh well, i suppose you'd have to have a jazzy title to catch people's attention. another option, which i'm not so sure how feasible it is, is to print these suckers on index cards. i and many others use them quite a bit. i already have pictures that i've scanned from many rpg sources and glued onto 4 x 6 cards, so i have a face that i can show my players. the backround i just whip up on the fly.</blockquote>

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