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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8257984" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>One thing I have found helpful (and obviously this is a potential time issue so it is not a technique that needs to be used for every single group and organization), is to make a chart of all the lower rank members of an important faction (just listing their names, maybe a nickname). So say you have a gang and you have NPC entries and stat blocks for all its leadership, and a general stat block for the 100 soldiers in the gang: you just make a list of 100 names (in my setting characters often have martial nicknames so I can hint at their personality through that). They all share a simple stat block, but at least you have names to go on when they come up (and it actually can come up because say a group of 10 soldiers attack the party and the players kill 9 but start pressing the 10th for info: they may ask his name; they may ask the name of the others----they may ask anyone in the know who saw the incident the identities of the men involved).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8257984, member: 85555"] One thing I have found helpful (and obviously this is a potential time issue so it is not a technique that needs to be used for every single group and organization), is to make a chart of all the lower rank members of an important faction (just listing their names, maybe a nickname). So say you have a gang and you have NPC entries and stat blocks for all its leadership, and a general stat block for the 100 soldiers in the gang: you just make a list of 100 names (in my setting characters often have martial nicknames so I can hint at their personality through that). They all share a simple stat block, but at least you have names to go on when they come up (and it actually can come up because say a group of 10 soldiers attack the party and the players kill 9 but start pressing the 10th for info: they may ask his name; they may ask the name of the others----they may ask anyone in the know who saw the incident the identities of the men involved). [/QUOTE]

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