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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 8337068" data-attributes="member: 6775477">Making likable NPCs. I've excellent at making villains and rivals; the kind of people you love to hate. While I'll occasionally make an NPC the players like (and the party becomes very attached to them), most of the &quot;friendly&quot; NPCs are given a mild disdain. A few are even viewed with outright hostility; I've had friendly NPCs turned into enemies because of their treatment by the PC, which just reinforces their opinion of most NPCs...I think it's better to overestimate than underestimate. I try to be prepared enough to two sessions, just in case the party either skips a section or is much more productive than usual. When I ran Murder in Baulder's Gate during an Encounters season, we spent 2 sessions before we even started the first official &quot;encounter,&quot; since the party really wanted to meet the NPCs.I have the opposite problem, in that I currently have about 7-8 ideas, but I just can't run enough. I just finished my 3rd campaign about a month ago, taking my first hiatus in about 6 years or so. Even still I'm putting together a Megadungeon to be runs as one shots for the weeks the DM can't run. I'm a bit of an addict <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🙃" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f643.png" title="Upside-down face&nbsp; &nbsp; :upside_down:" data-shortname=":upside_down:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 8337068, member: 6775477"] Making likable NPCs. I've excellent at making villains and rivals; the kind of people you love to hate. While I'll occasionally make an NPC the players like (and the party becomes very attached to them), most of the "friendly" NPCs are given a mild disdain. A few are even viewed with outright hostility; I've had friendly NPCs turned into enemies because of their treatment by the PC, which just reinforces their opinion of most NPCs... I think it's better to overestimate than underestimate. I try to be prepared enough to two sessions, just in case the party either skips a section or is much more productive than usual. When I ran Murder in Baulder's Gate during an Encounters season, we spent 2 sessions before we even started the first official "encounter," since the party really wanted to meet the NPCs. I have the opposite problem, in that I currently have about 7-8 ideas, but I just can't run enough. I just finished my 3rd campaign about a month ago, taking my first hiatus in about 6 years or so. Even still I'm putting together a Megadungeon to be runs as one shots for the weeks the DM can't run. I'm a bit of an addict 🙃 [/QUOTE]

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