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<blockquote data-quote="Traveon Wyvernspur" data-source="post: 5801940" data-attributes="member: 73201"><p>Thinking about the games I've ran, I always love to have memorable NPCs that the PCs will love, hate, dread, laugh at, etc. </p><p></p><p>I was just curious about what/who (doesn't matter about editions/genres/themes) you have run across or created to be the best (or worst) NPCs of all time?</p><p></p><p>Some of mine:</p><p></p><p>4E Campaign I had a Halfling Female - Maggie Trickfoot, Captain of the Westgate Guard. She instantly fell in love with the party's very charming half-elf paladin when they first met and when the party was trying to get some free provisions... Later in the campaign she ended up putting a potion* in his drink to make him do whatever she wanted. She married him that evening and 9 months later they ended up having twins (boy and girl) helflings (a term I coined for halfling/half-elves). *Side note - the other party members saw her spike his drink but decided not to do anything because they wanted to see the outcome. </p><p></p><p>4E Campaign I was playing a DMPC because it was only two players in the group so the DMPC was a Dragonborn Warlord who was basically there just to provide a meatshield and didn't do any thinking on his own. He'd just follow orders and go into battle. This was an evil campaign and my brother's PC had just finished interrogating a slave girl in their inn room. He ordered the DMPC to "take care of the girl" to which the DMPC immediately cut the girl's head off. My brother's PC became annoyed and yelled at the DMPC to "clean up this mess!" at which point the DMPC took the body/head and tossed them out the window to the street below scaring everyone that saw it. They had to quickly find another inn room in another inn...</p><p></p><p>2E Campaign that spanned many planes, settings, and planets. My roommate had just finished a campaign that I ran for him where his PC became a demi-god. The next campaign he started out in Ravenloft and I had his demi-god PC as an NPC. I played him just like he did and played tricks on him, including putting him into a dream and running about 3 levels of adventures in this dream state. I wasn't too evil other than to take away any weapons he acquired in the dream, he got to keep his levels... After that the NPC demi-god was part of my pantheon and would show up every now and then to cause some havoc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Traveon Wyvernspur, post: 5801940, member: 73201"] Thinking about the games I've ran, I always love to have memorable NPCs that the PCs will love, hate, dread, laugh at, etc. I was just curious about what/who (doesn't matter about editions/genres/themes) you have run across or created to be the best (or worst) NPCs of all time? Some of mine: 4E Campaign I had a Halfling Female - Maggie Trickfoot, Captain of the Westgate Guard. She instantly fell in love with the party's very charming half-elf paladin when they first met and when the party was trying to get some free provisions... Later in the campaign she ended up putting a potion* in his drink to make him do whatever she wanted. She married him that evening and 9 months later they ended up having twins (boy and girl) helflings (a term I coined for halfling/half-elves). *Side note - the other party members saw her spike his drink but decided not to do anything because they wanted to see the outcome. 4E Campaign I was playing a DMPC because it was only two players in the group so the DMPC was a Dragonborn Warlord who was basically there just to provide a meatshield and didn't do any thinking on his own. He'd just follow orders and go into battle. This was an evil campaign and my brother's PC had just finished interrogating a slave girl in their inn room. He ordered the DMPC to "take care of the girl" to which the DMPC immediately cut the girl's head off. My brother's PC became annoyed and yelled at the DMPC to "clean up this mess!" at which point the DMPC took the body/head and tossed them out the window to the street below scaring everyone that saw it. They had to quickly find another inn room in another inn... 2E Campaign that spanned many planes, settings, and planets. My roommate had just finished a campaign that I ran for him where his PC became a demi-god. The next campaign he started out in Ravenloft and I had his demi-god PC as an NPC. I played him just like he did and played tricks on him, including putting him into a dream and running about 3 levels of adventures in this dream state. I wasn't too evil other than to take away any weapons he acquired in the dream, he got to keep his levels... After that the NPC demi-god was part of my pantheon and would show up every now and then to cause some havoc. [/QUOTE]
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