Lazy Dm needs NCP list

[buddhafrog]

Is there a published collection of NPC's? I'm starting to DM after 20+ years to introduce my son and his friends to D&D. So far, it has gone exceptional. However, I don't have the time needed to do the type of job I'd like to do as DM.

It would be tremdously helpful to find a long collection of NPC's that I could plug and play depending upon the situation.

Any thoughts?

Also, just wanted to thank the forum -- the help/ideas I received here has really made this easier and fun -- and the boys *love* D&D.

*EDIT: actually I'm very NOT lazy, but rather NEW and am spending all my free time on preparing and learning how to be the DM.

 

[Snoweel]

"NCP"?

Is that a guy who comes to the table but doesn't get his own character?

I'd have him track initiative and conditions.

 

[Oryan77]

There was a reference list someone here made a while back that listed the books and page #'s, names, class level, and race of all the NPCs that were written up in all the 3e WotC books. Maybe someone has a copy of that they can post up?

The only thing is that would require that you have the books available. Or you can buy the pdf files.

There are also Wiki sites I believe where people wrote up their own NPCs. Try doing a search for those.

 

[Voadam]

Is there a published collection of NPC's? I'm starting to DM after 20+ years to introduce my son and his friends to D&D. So far, it has gone exceptional. However, I don't have the time needed to do the type of job I'd like to do as DM.

It would be tremdously helpful to find a long collection of NPC's that I could plug and play depending upon the situation.

There are tons. Are you looking for stats or concepts? 4e DDI gives you hundreds of monster/NPC stats. 3e there are a ton of products. There are npc generators, d20 NPC wiki, pdfs of npcs, print products of NPCs, ones that are mostly generic useful stats as well as unique character collections. Everybody Else by ENPublishing has stats for commoners and experts of common medieval types (sailors, barkeeps, tradesmen, nonmagical priests, nobles, etc.). Green Ronin has a Freeport 3.0 NPC book with unique D&D pirate themed people, a statless buccaneers of Freeport book with in depth looks at a dozen pirates. Creative Conclave puts out monster race themed humanoid collections of 3.5 stats that are super useful, Tabletop Adventures has one of Romance themed D&D NPCs, I think WotC's had one called allies and something I can't remember that was for 3.0 with guard stats and some unique NPCs. Malhavoc Press put out two NPC books, one themed for arcane classes and one themed for divine classes.

 

[Voadam]

I think WotC put out a web enhancement for Red Hand of Doom with stat blocks for all the monsters and NPCs in that 3.5 supermodule which are great to grab stats from.

Bastion Press put out a book called Villains which had 96 pages of in depth multipage badguys across a huge range of CRs.

 

[fba827]

is this for 4e? or 3.X? or Pathfinder? Or something else?

If for 4e, one guy from these boards made a "book of NPCs" you can find it Downloads - D&D 4th Edition - EN World D&D / RPG News
and scroll down about 1/2 the page and look for the entry called "Book of NPCs" save the file, unzip it and run the 'index' page (that references all the other pages in a table of contents like way - it won't work if all the files aren't unzipped first though)

 

[roguerouge]

If you need tables to generate quirks, background, secrets and hooks, the Ultimate Toolbox (Ultimate Toolbox - Alderac Entertainment Group | EN World PDF Store) is worth every penny.

 

[megamania]

Mongoose has book called Ultimate NPCs

Thunderhead games: Bluffside: City on the Edge has a good NPC section

Also- DMG has a section on characters by level.

From there- mine ideas from various books and even Rogues & Plots here.

 

[buddhafrog]

Thanks everyone, but especially Snoweel for this:

"NCP"?

Is that a guy who comes to the table but doesn't get his own character?

I'd have him track initiative and conditions.

I read somewhere how to edit thread titles somewhere, but....

Really, thanks TONS. I live in Korea where there is *no* gaming. Fortunately the interwebs make looking up all your suggestions possible. Ideally, I'm hoping to find a .pdf that I can print out and keep handy by the gaming table.

My weekend project!

We're playing 4e, but for NPC's I could change the needed stats from other systems with little problems. For the most important NPC's I would just do so more carefully.

Really, did I say thanks? Enworld rules.

 

[buddhafrog]

The Book of NPC's is wonderful.

The Monster Builder is nice, I'm playing around with it now. Interestingly, it's not nearly as fast/easy as the Book of NPC's. Yes, it is customizable, but I only need to do that for very few, very key monsters. Do you know of anything like the Book of NPC's but for monsters? (the index does include many basic monster types, but no monsters have been created for it yet)