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<blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 4447355" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>I only have a </p><p></p><p><u>Name</u></p><p><u>Decription</u>: (this is race, approx age, any distiguished physical features; this is also basica personality or speech pattern if there is anything disctinctive about the NPC)</p><p><u>Role</u>: (Role in society, be it merchant, barkeep etc; if i bothered to think up a class and level appropriate for this, i also list it here)</p><p><u>Location</u>: (Since my NPC notes are lengthy and some of my NPCs do move around, I list what city/town/local they are usually found at; if it is an NPC that's on the move, I list it down as a last known location type thing)</p><p><u>Attitude</u>: (this is attitude towards the PC based on default or whatever the last encounter was like. a simple friendly/hostile/professional/hostile/etc. I have to do this because I would otherwise forget if it's months in real time before the PCs run in to the NPC again)</p><p><u>Notes (optional)</u>: (Any other random story-related things I've thought up for the NPC, such as information they will have if the PCs ask for it, etc)</p><p><u>Misc (optional)</u>: (any other stat-related things I've thought up for the NPC; approrpaiate skill bonuses for their role, or feats I decided that they must have, etc and the couple ability scores that I decided are "high" "average" "low")</p><p></p><p>So that's the 5-7 things I make note of for each NPC that I have detailed. And even then, lots of that is barely a word or two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fba827, post: 4447355, member: 807"] I only have a [u]Name[/u] [u]Decription[/u]: (this is race, approx age, any distiguished physical features; this is also basica personality or speech pattern if there is anything disctinctive about the NPC) [u]Role[/u]: (Role in society, be it merchant, barkeep etc; if i bothered to think up a class and level appropriate for this, i also list it here) [u]Location[/u]: (Since my NPC notes are lengthy and some of my NPCs do move around, I list what city/town/local they are usually found at; if it is an NPC that's on the move, I list it down as a last known location type thing) [u]Attitude[/u]: (this is attitude towards the PC based on default or whatever the last encounter was like. a simple friendly/hostile/professional/hostile/etc. I have to do this because I would otherwise forget if it's months in real time before the PCs run in to the NPC again) [u]Notes (optional)[/u]: (Any other random story-related things I've thought up for the NPC, such as information they will have if the PCs ask for it, etc) [u]Misc (optional)[/u]: (any other stat-related things I've thought up for the NPC; approrpaiate skill bonuses for their role, or feats I decided that they must have, etc and the couple ability scores that I decided are "high" "average" "low") So that's the 5-7 things I make note of for each NPC that I have detailed. And even then, lots of that is barely a word or two. [/QUOTE]
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