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areyouwho-ithinkyouare · 5 months ago

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okok i’m doing prep for d&d later and they’re arriving in a new town so i’m working on that community and ohhhhhh my god i think this is my favourite npc i’ve ever created i hope they dont ignore her or kill her bcus i want 2 be her more than once pleaase

#if they do ignore her or kill her then. well. that’s their choice and i will accept it. but i will be sad about it.#and if that happens then maybe one day i’ll pull her out as a player character when i’m not GMing #BUTTT i really like her AS an npc so 🤞#my starting point with her was. enthusiastic local historian/journalist/record keeper who really WANTS to know everything there is to know #about her town and community #BUT (because of other worldbuilding stuff) there is very very little info about the actual history of the place #so she is piecing together what she can but the details are so hard to pin down that all her info is really only…. half-right #I want the party to like. go to ask her for info because she’s the person you’d expect to know what’s going on.#and she presents them with facts but some of those facts aren’t true and some are kinda just assumptions she’s made based on dodgy info #so the players can use it as a guide/starting point but can’t ever truuuuully take it word-for-word. it’s not the gospel truth it’s like….#missing a lot of important pieces.#like she can probably tell you WHERE something is pretty accurately. But she could not prepare you properly for what that thing IS.#and she’s come to some conclusions that are just plain wrong because she doesn’t have all the facts #and CRUCIALLY!!!! she is perfectly happy to be proven wrong. if the players find out any of this extra info/context that changes things #she will happily take that new detail on board and change her perspective #she WANTS all the info she just doesn’t have it #i like the idea that the party might start working for her a bit #probably not formally but just like…#if they uncover some local secrets they’d pass that on to her #and over time if they do that enough she probably WILL be able to put some important clues together #and help them figure out big-picture stuff that is important to the campaign #their reward for helping her build up her archives will be their own personal mystery solver who can tie all the threads of plot together #WHICH!!! is why i like her more as an npc than as an actual player character #she’s MEANT to be like… a collector of information who can eventually be a really useful resource for the party to turn to for information #but they have to work to get her there

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