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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9663362" data-attributes="member: 85555">Yeah and Scourge of the Demon Wolf is an adventure so in that situation I would suspect if you are thinking  more in terms of if the players do X. But a lot of NPCs, you have no idea why the players are going to meet them in the first place. You just have some important ward official in town for example. Sure you can preload him for an obvious adventure or an obvious conflict.This is one of the NPCs from my Sons of Lady 87 campaign. He is pretty typical, and basically a type of wuxia stock character. There are things in here that can be obvious hooks for something (becoming his disciple, becoming his victim, etc). But there is also a lot of space to extrapolate during play for me. He has come up again and again in campaigns because he is a notable physician in a big town, so players tend to seek him out. Which means I have had several different parties with different players interact with him, and even had many of the same parties interacion with him in different campaigns. Most of the interactions have not involved any of the aforementioned obvious things, but some have. The point is I am not putting this character here because I want or desire any particular adventure to arise. Like Rob said, I may have an idea of what will happen, but players are truly surprising and Sima Hao has been their friend, enemy, an important information resource, been on the receiving end of blackmail, been forced physically to hand over information about his techniques, been negotiated with for all kinds of arrangements, etc. You can have a concrete character. That character can even have arrows pointing in certain directions if you want. But you do not know what the players will do, and you are often surprised by your own reaction when you are playing an NPC (because you are kind of immersed in their personality the way a player is in their character in that moment and your are very much going by feel, so even Sima Hao can surprise you sometimes)[ATTACH=full]405795[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]405796[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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