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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lela" data-source="post: 2625937" data-attributes="member: 1216">Completely right, this can fill up a whole new thread, so I'll keep this brief.Just in case you don't know the term three dimensional, it basically means a true to life character with personal conflicts.  A quick example is someone who wants to marry the princess but doesn't want to be royalty.  She wants/needs to be queen someday and he respects that (no cheap and easy run off and be bakers solution).Another is your average 12 y/o kid.  He wants to grow up and be treated like an adult but he doesn't want adult responsability.To make it more true to life, the goals need to conflict with each other.  Cleric Crel'kes is devistated that the gods have abandoned the world.  He wants nothing more than to have them back but, frankly, they're dead and he knows it.  There's a new god on the horizen, one who's principles he can agree with and would normally be able to serve.  However, he loves his old, dead, god too much to go to the new guy.  On a deeper level, he feels betrayed at the loss of his old deity and can't bring himself to look at a new one--though he'd never admit it.NPCs get very rich and useful when they have such goals and conflicts, even if the players never see them.  It lets you move the world around your PCs and create reactions that are reasonable and hard for the players to predict.So much for brief.</blockquote>