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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 1614413" data-attributes="member: 11">Well, typically I choose one NPC of the group (in this case Gunthar) and make him do most of the talking.  I also have a 'voice' for each NPC - I don't mean an accent (though sometimes they have one), but just a way of talking that makes it instantly recognizable who is speaking.  Gunthar is crass.  Debo is brief and blunt.  Frederick is verbose and friendly.  Rondar is whiny, etc. . . I establish the characters and then rely on my ability as an actor and story-terller to give the cues -   But since it doesn't always work 100% I let the players know who the "default" speaker is and tell them to assume that if I don't say that is who is doing the talking.I also do thing like say "you overhear Fred and Gunthar speaking about X" and then give the info that way with some example lines of dialogue (some of which I write down ahead of time).It is tough having so many NPCs around (much like when the FMK traveled with the dwarves of Abarrane-Abaruch), but I do my best to thin the herd and get rid of them when I can - but I don't make them leave just b/c I am tired I am a slave to internal consistency. I expected this adventure to be difficult both because and in spite of all the other factions represented here (the gnomes, Gunthar's crew, the gnomes and the monks).  I had no prediction about what would happen and did not expect the alliance of the two parties - that threw me for a loop.  I just figured there would be some misunderstandings, some temporary alliances, some double-crossing, some info-swapping, etc. . . and I left it open ended to let the players decide how it would play out. I try to make all my encounters as open-ended as possible.</blockquote>

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