#NPC ideas

[offbeatworlds]

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[gyrrakavian]

DM/GM idea

A pair of lawyers who are an Aasimar and a Tiefling; Psalm and Somn Attorneys at Law.

[ideasinthedark]

this isn’t really a post about an npc, but I’ve been thinking about repurposing a character I made for a campaign into an npc.

The idea around this character was that he was a con-artist (his class was slide) who got excised from the red sashes, and is just trying to make enough money to survive. One of the things I gave him as a con was something called Ghost Coin where he would hand off a bottled spirit to someone for coin, this is quite obviously a scam, and if all goes well he doesn’t have to worry about them coming back.

[charactersseekingahome]

A Fey Patron covered in these that speaks through them and collects voices, words, and phrases in exchange for favors and pacts

[biggaywritingprompts]

Village/town full of people all named variations of Benedict Cumberbatch

E.g. Bendybumble Cumbledump, Bunsen Burner Crundlebitch

[thehomebakery]

😇🌟🔪

A kindly priest of the stars, who looks to them for guidance and advice. Her name is Eden, she has wild hair, and bright eyes. Eden believes stars are souls that have moved on.

On the surface this is a lovely belief, but in times when she has felt lost and abandoned she has ended up adding more souls to the sky.

[viscerasteel]

Halfling blacksmith adopts a Half Orc and raises them in Metalworking so they could inherit the shop when they are old enough, only for the Half-Orc to be extremely gifted at making cool sculptures.

[cleverartcollection]

Lady Morwenna

Lit version of this post, ended up liking this version too.

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[eldritchwaffless]

Alright, (potentially horrible) Idea for a campaign. The Video Game Main Character Campaign! The campaign takes place in a world where recently a world ending catastrophe was stopped by a legendary hero, a "chosen one" if you will. The party is then hired by said hero for some random quest. What follow is a classic case of a small dungeon quest with an annoying OP DMPC who seems to strangely know everything about that previously undiscovered dungeon. At the end of the dungeon the OP DMPC will do something that causes a conflict with the party and will then TPK them.

After this time turns back to moments before they first met the DMPC, which again, tries to hire them. The party will be confused, if they refuse the offer, they'll go on about their life, doing quest and stuff but every now and then they'll be back at a previous place and time. They'll realize that the OP DMPC as basically "save and load" powers, which they've used to become an hero and also to do evil things with no consequences. But they've abused of it so much that reality is beginning to break down so the party as to defeat them.

I haven't thought of a reason why the party can also remember the saves, maybe they touched something (like if the powers of the BBEG come from an artefact and the party had direct contact with it or something similar in the first dungeon) or maybe the gods gave the BBEG their powers and their like "Naah that ain't gonna do anymore" and so decided to give the party a chance at defeating them.

[trematosaurus]

I had a goblin crime boss npc that never ended up appearing in the game. He was your classic mob boss, black suit, fake Italian accent and all. But you may ask where’d he get his aesthetic from if he’s in your classic fantasy world? He got it from an event experienced while he was still a mere child. He was subject to a 1 in a billion cosmic mishap which caused him to slip through dimensions for a couple hours. This space time slip landed this small goblin in a movie theatre showing a gangster movie marathon, viewing these permanently changed this small child into the feared crime overload Gob Boss.

[cleitherphobiamonsters]

Mandalorian Sith

I'm not elaborating.

[marsupion]

Npc named "Joe King"

[nosleeppotions]

just a slow morning in The Fool's Errand

MO: *holding a mug * you see this? *takes a sip *

Toxin, signing tiredly: yeah boss, I see you're drinking coffee.

MO: you know that Death Caf I make for Marshal Commander Fox?

Toxin: *nods *

MO: this is stronger than that, this has given an eldrich being a heart attack, strong stuff.

Toxin, signing with wide eyes: what?

MO: observe *downs the whole cup *

A few moments pass in silence as Toxin prepares to panic

MO: *shows he's not shaking or anything * nothing. I am still exhausted. But I can't stop drinking coffee, it doesn't actually matter what kind. In fact I'm going to go upstairs and take a nap only to drink coffee again when I come back down. Worst part is, coffee still works on my brother.

Toxin, signing and speaking: ... I'm concerned.

MO: why?

[unnecessaryportmanteaus]

Merman Hellville sounds like a mermaid NPC with a (justified) beef with human ships in a nautical DnD campaign.

one of these days i am going to get herman melville's name right on the first try. i am going to say "herman", and then i'm going to say "melville", and i'm not going to have to stop myself in the middle of "merman hellville" and start over. not today, though. but hopefully soon. maybe tomorrow.

[vurthshistorian]

[in the tone of shorsey] So I watched Ep.4 of secret level the other day.

Now that I've been dragged back into Unreal Tournament 2004 with some seriousness I have plans for several RPG's. This is one of them. He's called The Financier. That suit wasn't originally his, but it did come from a Big and Tall Section, so he made it work.

[thehomebakery]

🌋🎈🐕

A fire genasi, Angelique (they/them) with a volcanic personality. They often find themselves at odds with their day-to-day job. Where they sell balloons to carnival goers.

It is fairly often that Angelique's fiery hair becomes explosive when their mood gets too extreme, popping the balloons and scaring nearby pets and people.

They retain their job only through their persuasive sister who is married to the carnival owner.