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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 932076" data-attributes="member: 812">The thing to remember is that all plots and politics and schemes are about people. People who want things. The best thing you can do is to keep your people organized. Your NPCs -- they should all have about three different goals each and have divided loyalties to at least two causes -- and it helps if each and every one of them is being forced to do something they don't really want to.Keeping track of who's doing what to whom is the big challenge. I use a software development environment (no kidding) -- so I have a separate text file for each NPC, all available with a single click, and I can cross-reference or do multi-file searches (so for example, if I want to find everyone who's involved in the looting of Pavairelle, I can just do a search on "Pavairelle" and see everyone I've ever come up with who's involved there.) Okay, so it's overkill. It sure works for me.Whatever tool you use, a political campaign, more than any other type, lives and dies by its NPCs. They have to be smart, memorable, passionate and individual. No "Just another fat mayor" here will do.Sounds like hard work, doesn't it? Well, it is. Political campaigns are massive amounts of work. But they sure are fun.</blockquote>