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<blockquote data-quote="Spike Y Jones" data-source="post: 1322331" data-attributes="member: 5108">Village of BriartonIt's odd you should say this. I just drew up a chart of links between the various NPCs in the book, and of the 52 named NPCs, 49 of them have one or more links to other named NPCs explicitly mentioned in the text. Of the remaining three, one is described as an outsider who married into the closeknit community and then found himself isolated when his wife died (so the lack of links made sense for him), another is a travelling salesman who only passes through the village for a few days every sixth week (so his lack of links makes sense; and while it's not made explicit he does have an implicit link to one of the other named NPCs if the GM should decide to explore it), and a third who probably should have more links (she's a shopkeeper, so definitely deals with plenty of the village population, but is apparently not good at making close relationships with any) but doesn't.So, out of 52 named NPCs, 50 have relationships to each other, one doesn't and it's for a good reason, and one doesn't for no good reason. Doesn't sound like &quot;almost none of the people in the village have any relationship to each other&quot; to me.Spike Y Jones, editor, The Village of Briarton</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spike Y Jones, post: 1322331, member: 5108"] [b]Village of Briarton[/b] It's odd you should say this. I just drew up a chart of links between the various NPCs in the book, and of the 52 named NPCs, 49 of them have one or more links to other named NPCs explicitly mentioned in the text. Of the remaining three, one is described as an outsider who married into the closeknit community and then found himself isolated when his wife died (so the lack of links made sense for him), another is a travelling salesman who only passes through the village for a few days every sixth week (so his lack of links makes sense; and while it's not made explicit he does have an implicit link to one of the other named NPCs if the GM should decide to explore it), and a third who probably should have more links (she's a shopkeeper, so definitely deals with plenty of the village population, but is apparently not good at making close relationships with any) but doesn't. So, out of 52 named NPCs, 50 have relationships to each other, one doesn't and it's for a good reason, and one doesn't for no good reason. Doesn't sound like "almost none of the people in the village have any relationship to each other" to me. Spike Y Jones, editor, [i]The Village of Briarton[/i] [/QUOTE]

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