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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5132784" data-attributes="member: 52734">It's all there for reference if you need pre-built NPCs.  Beyond that, don't try to force it; you don't even have to use the NPCs that are there if they don't fit your story.  None of the players will ever know better - unless they run game somewhere down the road (and then you could always say "the other guy left/got killed/had a brother/was really a doppelganger/whatever" and the new guy is the replacement).If I were running it, I would glance through the NPCs for any I wanted to highlight in the game for whatever reason and use only those, trying to stick to just enough to count on one (or maybe two) hand(s).  Its kind of like the cantina from Star Wars - every single one of the aliens in there has been detailed to death in stories, game books and the like, but in the actual movie the only ones that really counted were Doctor Evazin, Pondo Baba and Greedo (and even then, their presence was fleeting).  Sure, the others have all kinds of detail about them, but they were just backdrop flavor.Don't let the detail get you down.  Use it to your advantage, but don't be overwhelmed by it or beholden to it.</blockquote>