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<blockquote data-quote="Raflar" data-source="post: 1709000" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I ran a campaign this past year where the PCs were Private Investigators for the City of Westgate. I found the key to their enjoyment (and involvement) was in depth characterization of the NPCs. I had a list of over 50 NPCs each with a picture (almost all were famous Hollywood Celebs) and a brief blurb on their personality and where they fit in the storyline.</p><p> </p><p> My PCs love to interact and fortunately for me I love to 'act' so I had a lot of fun being all these different people, changing my voice as much as I could. Sometimes it was hard (especially at a Noble Dinner Party with over 80 guests) but I found I could feed the PCs information without it being forced on them.</p><p> </p><p> For example: Their next door neighbour was a kindly old lady who ran a bakery and loved to talk. Her husband was an aging Seargeant in the City Watch. She started to tell the PCs how the 'old guard' is being replaced by these new younger men, and they hope they could still make ends meet with the bakery.</p><p> </p><p> In my storyline, Westgate's Army and City Watch were slowly being replaced by men from Teziir. On the day when all the key positions were replaced, Westgate was attacked (by monsters & pirates hired by these same men). This 'new' army quelled the attack and became heros, thus cementing themselves into the City heirarchy.</p><p> </p><p> Now the PCs have to convince the Ruling Nobles & the citizens that the 'watch' is evil and that Westgate was taken over and they didn't even know it... </p><p> </p><p> but then my game stopped due to new jobs for my players and I had to move on to another campaign....</p><p> </p><p> If you want more information on my Westgate Campaign you can see it here: <a href="http://www.raflar.com/fantasyrpg/westgate-background.php" target="_blank">http://www.raflar.com/fantasyrpg/westgate-background.php</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raflar, post: 1709000, member: 1514"] I ran a campaign this past year where the PCs were Private Investigators for the City of Westgate. I found the key to their enjoyment (and involvement) was in depth characterization of the NPCs. I had a list of over 50 NPCs each with a picture (almost all were famous Hollywood Celebs) and a brief blurb on their personality and where they fit in the storyline. My PCs love to interact and fortunately for me I love to 'act' so I had a lot of fun being all these different people, changing my voice as much as I could. Sometimes it was hard (especially at a Noble Dinner Party with over 80 guests) but I found I could feed the PCs information without it being forced on them. For example: Their next door neighbour was a kindly old lady who ran a bakery and loved to talk. Her husband was an aging Seargeant in the City Watch. She started to tell the PCs how the 'old guard' is being replaced by these new younger men, and they hope they could still make ends meet with the bakery. In my storyline, Westgate's Army and City Watch were slowly being replaced by men from Teziir. On the day when all the key positions were replaced, Westgate was attacked (by monsters & pirates hired by these same men). This 'new' army quelled the attack and became heros, thus cementing themselves into the City heirarchy. Now the PCs have to convince the Ruling Nobles & the citizens that the 'watch' is evil and that Westgate was taken over and they didn't even know it... but then my game stopped due to new jobs for my players and I had to move on to another campaign.... If you want more information on my Westgate Campaign you can see it here: [url]http://www.raflar.com/fantasyrpg/westgate-background.php[/url] [/QUOTE]
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