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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King_Stannis" data-source="post: 483582" data-attributes="member: 324">I have the same trouble sometimes.This may or may not work, but what you can try to do is visualize the NPC and attach a mental image of their main feat, special ability, in your head. After you create the NPC, take one minute to visualize him/her, then put an in unmistakable symbol of the ability/feat. You have an NPC who cannot be flanked? Simply run a picture of him backflipping out while being surrounded by the PC’s. Run the image through your head 3 or 4 times while looking at the stat-blok, sheet, miniature, etc. Hopefully, that image will trigger you to remember (or at least to know to look for) the ability when it comes into play.  You have a fighter NPC who can cleave? Picture him with a  meat cleaver attached to his head and swirling around like a whirling dervish. Someone has dodge? Picture him there one moment, and then he leaves a looney-toons smoke trail the next. Resistent to acid? Try to think of him with an umbrella and a smile on his face as the PC’s are trying to pour acid on him.It’ll probably only work for one main feat/ability at first, but if you get better at it you can probably do a few more. The thing is to make sure you can associate that image with the NPC’s card, sheet, miniature, etc. That’s why you’ve got to think about it for a minute after you create him. It might be a good idea to run through you list of NPC's for that night's session that the PC's might be fighting as well.Let me know if it works if anyone decides to try it.</blockquote>

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