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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3443892" data-attributes="member: 25619">I do it a lot.  I'm very into NPC's.  What's interesting to me is when players can't tell the difference between NPC recently invented and NPC former-PC-another-group-played.  I figure I'm doing NPC's right if they seem deep enough to have been PC's.I'll also do references to PC's that have gone before through their equipment being found in the one and only magic shop or in treasure hordes if things didn't turn out well, and through tradesmen mentioning other groups.  I't also interesting to have PC's join and quit and rejoin other parties, so that there's a connection between them.I do all of this in western Greyhawk (mostly between Bissel and the Cairn Hills).  For Greyhawk, old PC's becoming NPC's seems natural.  I've used the former PCs Robilar, Tenser, and Erac's Cousin from Gygax's campaign in my campaign too.  Don't tell anyone about Erac's Cousin . . . IT'S A SECRET!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   (whispered really loud like Homer Simpson would do it)My entire group of campaigns, 1996 to the present, began with my own version of the Keep on the Borderlands, where the mission was to recovered the remains of a slain PC (slain circa 1982) from baddies . . . the party were hired by one of the slain PC's retired PC friends.</blockquote>

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