My favourite NPC was a really nice ogre that lived in phandalin, he lived in a shack on the right side of the map of phandalin it is broken down and my friend was a slave in the campaign (I was the DM). So my friend then was shoveling the poop next to the house when a nice ogre comes from out of his house. The ogre tells him not to do that, but my friend insists that he must because he is a slave. They then became friends and I mentioned him in a recent campaign and they met again after a long time :).
The one most of my campaign world revolves around is Sophia, the Orichalcum Dragon. She was hatched by the last good dragon to undo all the damage done by the evil dragons in the Great Dragon War, but that ended 8000 years ago. So now she grapples with the question of the purpose of her own existence. What does it mean to undo damage that happened so long ago even the scar tissue is gone?
My FAVORITE was probably an information broker in a CoC game who was actually Nyarlathotep in disguise. He'd always offer players information that they COULD get by honest graft. If they wanted a shortcut, they had to pay through the nose. Everything about this guy should have screamed 'stay away' but they were forever trying to get in touch with him. Eventually I realized I was making the clues too hard, forcing them to always look for hints, but at the time I flattered myself that they just liked the character. There might be a DM lesson there.
He really got under one players skin I'm afraid. Her character was this glamorous blonde bombshell type and I couldn't resist having him mysteriously appear in places where she was at a disadvantage, eg, in the beauty salon with her hair up in curlers and a mud mask on her face, or whatever. She was a good sport, but I think she was starting to feel picked on, though. There might be a DM lesson there, as well.
The players hired an NPC private eye to tail him once who was never heard from again. They were so guilt-stricken about what must have happened to this poor NPC, I almost broke down and told them that the information broker just gave him a wad of money to disappear for a while and not make contact with his employers. I always tried to make everything he did explainable...possible. He'd tell them "The problem with doing the impossible is not so much. in the doing it, although that presents its challenges. Rather, the problem is in dealing with the consequences, which, arising from an impossible situation, are both entirely unpredictable and often as intractable as the original problem itself."
There's a guy in my DND world, Easy Calloway, who is the de facto head of the Thieves' Guild, who has a few of the same features. I gave him the name Easy mostly as a warning not to take the easy way, but I'm not sure that's sunken in yet.
My favorite so far is probably Sar, a thri-kreen who's full name I've somehow memorized (S'chatek Arvalir Ras'miir). He was meant to be an NPC who betrayed the party to give them a sense of urgency, since they would be hunted, but now everyone makes references to him, and he's one player's favorite NPC.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
My favorite was Alexander. I can't remember what race h was, but he HATED being called a Dwarf. My character was from a land where he never saw any race other than his own, and he had low intelligence and wisdom, so he kept calling him "hairy child" or "angry dwarf" and Alexander HATED that, but I would buy him alcohol a lot so he tolerated me. He was our guide to get over a huge mountain, he live on the mountain so he knew the way, but he hated strangers so I was the only one he would talk to really. If combat would happen, I'd pick him up and put him in a tree or somewhere away from harm. I always just pictured this angry little man who hates the world, but then there's my character who doesnt read social cues and just hugs on him and always assumes his insults are jokes. Last time I saw Alexander I was giving him all of my gold so he would never run out of alcohol and then I sailed away on a ship while he stood on the docks smiling at me, which was the first time he showed any type of positive emotion.
Session 1 of our last campaign has us trying to track down some goblins who had kidnapped some villagers. Not knowing the area well, or having darkvision, our party asked a villager to accompany us. When we asked his name, our DM blurted out “Torch, he’s uh, carrying a backpack full of torches.”. We ended up asking him to accompany us, and he eventually levelled into a Battle Master Fighter.
Well, I introduced a tiefling child who was being attacked by a mob, thinking that the party would rescue her and maybe take her with them before moving along. Nope. They instantly fell in love with her, and the sorcerer is even thinking about adopting her after the campaign is over. I think she's really helped bring purpose to a ragtag collection of heroes. I also think her name, Purity, was pretty good, based on her personality and backstory.
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My favorite npc was a paladin I introduced to assist one mission. Her name was Kilturium and I really liked playing her as well as the party liked hanging out with her. She became by DM pet and it was actually not as hard as I thought it would be. It was cool to talk in her accent as well as watch the players interrogate her as a way to test me on how well I had her character developed.
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Me and my friend and fellow DM have a bit of a running gag in our campaigns with his old player character, Dimitri Gorbanjeskov. Dimitri is a Dwarf Rogue with an incredibly thick Russian accent, despite our settings having no equivelant to Russia, and he refuses to give any details about his home other than calling it The Motherland. He's a tattooist, and owns a small parlor sometimes located in the same building as the tavern owned by my old PC, Hara Huleheim the halfling cleric. We've joked that Dimitri is actually some cosmic constant, because he always shows up in our campaigns.
My favorite was Dinia (aka Grandma Yoda), a lovable old lady and a bard that lives in the mountains and has pet polar bears. The DM said she would have been a hag if he was mean, but she isn’t (as far as we know).
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RIP Tavern.
All hail King Jovan Fluffycloud Prince
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”I don’t have any good quotes to put in my sig.” -Me
Several in the campaign I'm currently playing in, hard to narrow it down to just one. But for the sake of listing just one and not writing out an essay's worth of npcs...
The wizard's cat famliar, who the DM strongly channels that cat from Sabrina the Teenage Witch into, including having him having been a powerful evil wizard a long time ago, and cursed into his current form as punishment for said evil deeds. Often makes aside remaks about his time as a villain and mocks the party's more heroic tendencies. But still has a soft spot for the wizard.
It's a tie between Mogis from my current "Mythic Odysseys of Theros" campaign or a Silver Dragonborn I created for an old Homebrew Campaign I was doing with my family named "Benny".
I based Benny off the character with the same name from the movie "The Mummy" with Brendan Frazier. He was a sneaky sleazy Dragonborn who was reluctantly tasked out by the King to guide the PC's through the Desert. He was just a really fun NPC to play because he had a really funny accent, he kept getting into arguments with the PC's, and every opportunity I had I would throw a Benny quote from The Mummy into the episode. It was really funny.
Recently I've been running a Theros campaign in which the PC's are Champions of certain Gods and everyso often they have certain opportunities in which they communicate with their God directly. Well one my players picked Mogis to be his God and Mogis happens to be a...not so nice God, lol. And so every opportunity in which the PC interacts with Mogis it just turns into this hilarious exchange in which Mogis consistently chastises him for failing to do certain things, and just insults him, sometimes beats him up, it's just a very dysfunctional love/hate relationship they have, lol.
Luminus! He was part of a group of mages who half-failed at their most important mission and they were all cursed with immortality for it. They're hoping we can fix what they couldn't so they can go ahead and die already.
Luminus is a 1,000 year old blue dragonborn sorcerer, he's HUGE, and lives inside a volcano in the middle of a frozen wasteland with about a hundred pseudodragons that he treats like they're all his little babies. He's developed different color morphs from species all over the world, so stepping into the aviary is a little bit like swimming through a fancy aquarium. He sells them in theory, but since he lives where he lives, he's never actually sold a single one, and probably couldn't bear to part with one anyway.
The best NPC in the campaigns I participated were: * a MILF half-elf from The Long Horn's pub on Del'Ath'Ial village, in the Summerset province. That village had only 56 habitants. And half of them were familiars each other. * a ""supposed"" dumb human old man, who suffered a paranoia (( later, with a further investigation, I discovered he had arachnophobia )). And I had to convince him to fight against his "curse". After taking the enough patience and care, he finally succeeded in curing his own paranoia. And you know what, he was a candidate to be a prince who fled on his investiture because ""someone else"" cursed him. * an abandoned Mastiff who was crawling over & over in a forest (( I later discovered that Mastiff had an owner who died just there )). I convinced that dog to let his owner ""sleep in peace"". I trained it as my beloved familiar; when the campaign ended I was so close to teach him his first idiom. xD
You tried to summon the devil or whatever, and ended up summoning Reggie. Remember that? Or have you blocked that embarrassing moment from your memories? As I recall, you rolled a nat 100 and still failed.
But then I managed to summon the Demon Prince of Undeath, and ended up becoming his servant.
The PC one was an ogre that randomly encountered us after we had liberated a shrine of Gwaeron Windstrom, which I convinced to stay and protect the shrine, since there was plenty of berries growing around the shrine. Last I heard about him, he was still there, and the village hade taken a liking to him.
Favorite as a DM might be a bit of a SPOILER for curse of Strahd.
It was Izek Strazni. One of the players took an interest in his story and really explored it. They went from trying to killing him, to, some begrudgingly and some happily, allowing him to join the party (the party had the upper hand, so it was that, or no Ireena) to be able to be with Ireena.
After a while, in a battle, Strahd charmed him to give him Ireena. This really broke him, and he joined the party to castle Ravenloft, but they ultimately could not save Ireena, which was his final humbling event. After this he cut of his demon arm on the balcony of Ravenloft and gave the roll of guard captain to one of the PCs, and left Barovia.
He went from being the a classical bully, to being a troubled character that needed some soul searching, and someone that, at that point, the party had grown fond of.
Cursecival a dragon born from the other side (a dragon that has been given human features) he has been a Reluctant antagonist to the party. He has a sizable amount of clones and hates his boss but he’s a warlock with sone strict restrictions. So he gives the players information through sending and later ambushes them. He also have a much deeper connection to the party then they realize.
My favourite NPC is an NPC my party meet in one of our early sessions. He was a guy who sold bread on a moutain top. Funny thing was, the DM totally prepared for us to kill and loot this man and they even prepared what would be on the body, but instead, we basically adopted the NPC into our group and they've been with us every since, they even helped us to defeat the BBEG once!
The main reason we kept them was because they could make free bread for us and he was also pretty lonely and we call him Bread Man.
It's also a joke in the party that Bread Man is god because they never seem to get injured or killed
My favourite NPC was a really nice ogre that lived in phandalin, he lived in a shack on the right side of the map of phandalin it is broken down and my friend was a slave in the campaign (I was the DM). So my friend then was shoveling the poop next to the house when a nice ogre comes from out of his house. The ogre tells him not to do that, but my friend insists that he must because he is a slave. They then became friends and I mentioned him in a recent campaign and they met again after a long time :).
The one most of my campaign world revolves around is Sophia, the Orichalcum Dragon. She was hatched by the last good dragon to undo all the damage done by the evil dragons in the Great Dragon War, but that ended 8000 years ago. So now she grapples with the question of the purpose of her own existence. What does it mean to undo damage that happened so long ago even the scar tissue is gone?
My FAVORITE was probably an information broker in a CoC game who was actually Nyarlathotep in disguise. He'd always offer players information that they COULD get by honest graft. If they wanted a shortcut, they had to pay through the nose. Everything about this guy should have screamed 'stay away' but they were forever trying to get in touch with him. Eventually I realized I was making the clues too hard, forcing them to always look for hints, but at the time I flattered myself that they just liked the character. There might be a DM lesson there.
He really got under one players skin I'm afraid. Her character was this glamorous blonde bombshell type and I couldn't resist having him mysteriously appear in places where she was at a disadvantage, eg, in the beauty salon with her hair up in curlers and a mud mask on her face, or whatever. She was a good sport, but I think she was starting to feel picked on, though. There might be a DM lesson there, as well.
The players hired an NPC private eye to tail him once who was never heard from again. They were so guilt-stricken about what must have happened to this poor NPC, I almost broke down and told them that the information broker just gave him a wad of money to disappear for a while and not make contact with his employers. I always tried to make everything he did explainable...possible. He'd tell them "The problem with doing the impossible is not so much. in the doing it, although that presents its challenges. Rather, the problem is in dealing with the consequences, which, arising from an impossible situation, are both entirely unpredictable and often as intractable as the original problem itself."
There's a guy in my DND world, Easy Calloway, who is the de facto head of the Thieves' Guild, who has a few of the same features. I gave him the name Easy mostly as a warning not to take the easy way, but I'm not sure that's sunken in yet.
My favorite so far is probably Sar, a thri-kreen who's full name I've somehow memorized (S'chatek Arvalir Ras'miir). He was meant to be an NPC who betrayed the party to give them a sense of urgency, since they would be hunted, but now everyone makes references to him, and he's one player's favorite NPC.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
My favorite was Alexander. I can't remember what race h was, but he HATED being called a Dwarf. My character was from a land where he never saw any race other than his own, and he had low intelligence and wisdom, so he kept calling him "hairy child" or "angry dwarf" and Alexander HATED that, but I would buy him alcohol a lot so he tolerated me. He was our guide to get over a huge mountain, he live on the mountain so he knew the way, but he hated strangers so I was the only one he would talk to really. If combat would happen, I'd pick him up and put him in a tree or somewhere away from harm. I always just pictured this angry little man who hates the world, but then there's my character who doesnt read social cues and just hugs on him and always assumes his insults are jokes. Last time I saw Alexander I was giving him all of my gold so he would never run out of alcohol and then I sailed away on a ship while he stood on the docks smiling at me, which was the first time he showed any type of positive emotion.
Session 1 of our last campaign has us trying to track down some goblins who had kidnapped some villagers. Not knowing the area well, or having darkvision, our party asked a villager to accompany us. When we asked his name, our DM blurted out “Torch, he’s uh, carrying a backpack full of torches.”. We ended up asking him to accompany us, and he eventually levelled into a Battle Master Fighter.
Cleric of Ilmater
“The Lumber-Jacked”
Weaver of Worlds
Well, I introduced a tiefling child who was being attacked by a mob, thinking that the party would rescue her and maybe take her with them before moving along. Nope. They instantly fell in love with her, and the sorcerer is even thinking about adopting her after the campaign is over. I think she's really helped bring purpose to a ragtag collection of heroes. I also think her name, Purity, was pretty good, based on her personality and backstory.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
My favorite npc was a paladin I introduced to assist one mission. Her name was Kilturium and I really liked playing her as well as the party liked hanging out with her. She became by DM pet and it was actually not as hard as I thought it would be. It was cool to talk in her accent as well as watch the players interrogate her as a way to test me on how well I had her character developed.
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Me and my friend and fellow DM have a bit of a running gag in our campaigns with his old player character, Dimitri Gorbanjeskov. Dimitri is a Dwarf Rogue with an incredibly thick Russian accent, despite our settings having no equivelant to Russia, and he refuses to give any details about his home other than calling it The Motherland. He's a tattooist, and owns a small parlor sometimes located in the same building as the tavern owned by my old PC, Hara Huleheim the halfling cleric. We've joked that Dimitri is actually some cosmic constant, because he always shows up in our campaigns.
My favorite NPC was Buckets, an old man who turned out to be a deity in disguise. It's a long-ish story.
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My favorite was Dinia (aka Grandma Yoda), a lovable old lady and a bard that lives in the mountains and has pet polar bears. The DM said she would have been a hag if he was mean, but she isn’t (as far as we know).
RIP Tavern.
All hail King Jovan Fluffycloud Prince
Teleporting elf monk supremacy!, but druids are better
[Cactus]Waffles!”I don’t have any good quotes to put in my sig.” -Me
Several in the campaign I'm currently playing in, hard to narrow it down to just one. But for the sake of listing just one and not writing out an essay's worth of npcs...
The wizard's cat famliar, who the DM strongly channels that cat from Sabrina the Teenage Witch into, including having him having been a powerful evil wizard a long time ago, and cursed into his current form as punishment for said evil deeds. Often makes aside remaks about his time as a villain and mocks the party's more heroic tendencies. But still has a soft spot for the wizard.
It's a tie between Mogis from my current "Mythic Odysseys of Theros" campaign or a Silver Dragonborn I created for an old Homebrew Campaign I was doing with my family named "Benny".
I based Benny off the character with the same name from the movie "The Mummy" with Brendan Frazier. He was a sneaky sleazy Dragonborn who was reluctantly tasked out by the King to guide the PC's through the Desert. He was just a really fun NPC to play because he had a really funny accent, he kept getting into arguments with the PC's, and every opportunity I had I would throw a Benny quote from The Mummy into the episode. It was really funny.
Recently I've been running a Theros campaign in which the PC's are Champions of certain Gods and everyso often they have certain opportunities in which they communicate with their God directly. Well one my players picked Mogis to be his God and Mogis happens to be a...not so nice God, lol. And so every opportunity in which the PC interacts with Mogis it just turns into this hilarious exchange in which Mogis consistently chastises him for failing to do certain things, and just insults him, sometimes beats him up, it's just a very dysfunctional love/hate relationship they have, lol.
But yeah, I'd say those 2 are my favorites.
Luminus! He was part of a group of mages who half-failed at their most important mission and they were all cursed with immortality for it. They're hoping we can fix what they couldn't so they can go ahead and die already.
Luminus is a 1,000 year old blue dragonborn sorcerer, he's HUGE, and lives inside a volcano in the middle of a frozen wasteland with about a hundred pseudodragons that he treats like they're all his little babies. He's developed different color morphs from species all over the world, so stepping into the aviary is a little bit like swimming through a fancy aquarium. He sells them in theory, but since he lives where he lives, he's never actually sold a single one, and probably couldn't bear to part with one anyway.
The best NPC in the campaigns I participated were:
* a MILF half-elf from The Long Horn's pub on Del'Ath'Ial village, in the Summerset province. That village had only 56 habitants. And half of them were familiars each other.
* a ""supposed"" dumb human old man, who suffered a paranoia (( later, with a further investigation, I discovered he had arachnophobia )). And I had to convince him to fight against his "curse". After taking the enough patience and care, he finally succeeded in curing his own paranoia. And you know what, he was a candidate to be a prince who fled on his investiture because ""someone else"" cursed him.
* an abandoned Mastiff who was crawling over & over in a forest (( I later discovered that Mastiff had an owner who died just there )). I convinced that dog to let his owner ""sleep in peace"". I trained it as my beloved familiar; when the campaign ended I was so close to teach him his first idiom. xD
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Dertinus Tristany // Amilcar Barca // Vicenç Sacrarius // Oriol Deulofeu // Grovtuk
There was this one dude named Reggie Redbones, tried to kill him a few times, ended up turning into the god of chaos, pretty great.
Crusher of Cranium in the "oops, i accidentally destroyed someones brain" cult.
I sell bamboozle insurance
But then I managed to summon the Demon Prince of Undeath, and ended up becoming his servant.
Crusher of Cranium in the "oops, i accidentally destroyed someones brain" cult.
I sell bamboozle insurance
I’ll give one as a DM, and one as a PC:
The PC one was an ogre that randomly encountered us after we had liberated a shrine of Gwaeron Windstrom, which I convinced to stay and protect the shrine, since there was plenty of berries growing around the shrine. Last I heard about him, he was still there, and the village hade taken a liking to him.
Favorite as a DM might be a bit of a SPOILER for curse of Strahd.
It was Izek Strazni. One of the players took an interest in his story and really explored it. They went from trying to killing him, to, some begrudgingly and some happily, allowing him to join the party (the party had the upper hand, so it was that, or no Ireena) to be able to be with Ireena.
After a while, in a battle, Strahd charmed him to give him Ireena. This really broke him, and he joined the party to castle Ravenloft, but they ultimately could not save Ireena, which was his final humbling event. After this he cut of his demon arm on the balcony of Ravenloft and gave the roll of guard captain to one of the PCs, and left Barovia.
He went from being the a classical bully, to being a troubled character that needed some soul searching, and someone that, at that point, the party had grown fond of.
Cursecival a dragon born from the other side (a dragon that has been given human features) he has been a Reluctant antagonist to the party. He has a sizable amount of clones and hates his boss but he’s a warlock with sone strict restrictions. So he gives the players information through sending and later ambushes them. He also have a much deeper connection to the party then they realize.
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My favourite NPC is an NPC my party meet in one of our early sessions. He was a guy who sold bread on a moutain top. Funny thing was, the DM totally prepared for us to kill and loot this man and they even prepared what would be on the body, but instead, we basically adopted the NPC into our group and they've been with us every since, they even helped us to defeat the BBEG once!
The main reason we kept them was because they could make free bread for us and he was also pretty lonely and we call him Bread Man.
It's also a joke in the party that Bread Man is god because they never seem to get injured or killed
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