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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 7614409" data-attributes="member: 467"><p>Not in my worlds. Those NPCs must have independent existences if the world is to be anything more interesting than a CRPG without the graphics. There's no place for NPCs merely standing around with glowing exclamation points above their heads.</p><p></p><p>Now, some NPCs pop into existence when the PCs seek them out, but that's the result of limited time. They still exist as a matter of context. If there is a village and in that village is an inn and in that inn a stable, there's a stable boy in there even if I had not taken the time to name him. If I did my job right in prep the character appears with a life, even if it is just a sketch. So if the players go seeking out the stable boy to bribe him for information on horses he's seen, for example, his knowledge isn't based on the PCs asking, it's based on a quick judgment about whether he'd know. At least, in a perfect world.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes of course it's easier to ask for a Persuasion roll and use the result to determine what the stable boy knows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 7614409, member: 467"] Not in my worlds. Those NPCs must have independent existences if the world is to be anything more interesting than a CRPG without the graphics. There's no place for NPCs merely standing around with glowing exclamation points above their heads. Now, some NPCs pop into existence when the PCs seek them out, but that's the result of limited time. They still exist as a matter of context. If there is a village and in that village is an inn and in that inn a stable, there's a stable boy in there even if I had not taken the time to name him. If I did my job right in prep the character appears with a life, even if it is just a sketch. So if the players go seeking out the stable boy to bribe him for information on horses he's seen, for example, his knowledge isn't based on the PCs asking, it's based on a quick judgment about whether he'd know. At least, in a perfect world. Sometimes of course it's easier to ask for a Persuasion roll and use the result to determine what the stable boy knows. [/QUOTE]
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