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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InVinoVeritas" data-source="post: 2989896" data-attributes="member: 41485">A couple of NPCs from my time in Living Greyhawk were popular (and fun for me, too):Huffin' Guffin, proprietor of Huffin' Guffin's Muffins, was a vendor in a market square who, yes, sold muffins. Really good, tasty muffins. No, nothing special or magical or anything. However, it was one of the first, if not the first, hook that didn't rely on "You're all in this tavern when..." Instead, it was early in the morning, everyone gathered around this muffin stand because the PCs individually heard that getting these muffins at dawn, while they're hot, was great. Huffin' Guffin was Keoland's first recurring NPC.My favorite, though, was Xapatl. A great evil from the Amedio jungle was brought to Gradsul, a major city. Xapatl, a high priest of the Olman people, learned about the great evil and did everything he could to help the PCs remove the great evil. However, Xapatl was himself a terribly evil priest of a death god. He would plead with the PCs, help them, give them information, and hope they were successful--but all the while he left a trail of animated corpses and summoned demons in his wake. A lot of PCs said they'd rather work with him, anyway, instead of the authorities.Another NPC I remember from years and years ago was Joachim. The PCs arrived in this major city, and Joachim was the kindly innkeeper of the place they stayed while in town. However, the BBEG figured out they were staying at this inn, and sent all sorts of terrible plagues to harrow the PCs. The walls would bleed, demons would appear, things would burst into flames... and poor Joachim would run around, trying to clean everything up, humbly apologizing to the PCs and assuring them that this sort of thing didn't normally happen at the inn. The PCs took extra special care of Joachim and gave him a share of their loot just for putting up with everything.</blockquote>

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