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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7417444" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Meet more people, read more books, watch foreign films.Movies and TVs seem to dip into the same character types over and over. Of course, books do as well, but I've found that I find more variety in books.Also, putting yourself in situations where you'll meet a wider variety of people helps. While not everyone can travel widely or have easy access to highly diverse groups, you can still improve your NPC improv by paying attention to the details of the people you interact with. Sometimes, to keep myself entertained in meetings, I try to imagine the participants as NPCs. How would I describe them? What do they look like? What is their voice like? Do they have any distinquishing mannerisms? I find that a lot of the body-language "science" to be bunk--but reading it can help you with describing people.Something I've been thinking of doing is reading up on how police sketch artist elicits sufficient information from witnesses to come up with their sketches. I'm assuming that would help me greatly with describing people physically, which is an area I would like to improve.</blockquote>