How to help DMs improvise NPCs
Improvising NPCs can be one of the biggest challenges you face in the middle of a session you are DMing. You are already balancing dozens of other thoughts…
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Traveling Merchant: Constel
So the life she has taken on is that of a wanderer, a nomad, a traveler for the sake of traveling and discovery. She also has a proclivity for herbalism, nature, trapping, and poisons. The road is dangerous and learning how to protect herself from even the greatest of predators is necessary. So she stocks up on healing salves that she makes, as well as tools for making traps, weapons she made from the remains of slain beasts, and has refined some paralytic and lethal toxins to help her escape from or kill some of nature’s toughest foes.
Blacksmith| Derak the Starlit Smith
Derak Jenvar, an elven blacksmith that works silently through the night working on repairs and commissions for travelers thanks to some Silence runes inscribed on his anvil and tools.
Derak likes to work at night because he believes that the gods watch over his work and he is more in tune with them in his craft when the stars and moon give him light. This is entirely superstition and his susceptibility to conspiracies does not end there.
Musician: Djeordan Kavarnen
This bard is a one man band. He just could never communicate exactly how a song was playing in his head, so he built contraptions to help him do it all at once. It started with just a lute in his hands and some bells on his feet but then he needed a horn. So he strapped one over his shoulder…
Ally: Vin’dan Thresher
Growing up in the city was a tough setting for Vin’dan. He was brought here against his will, if you can have a will in infancy, when his family’s clan was dispersed by Dwarvish invaders. Now, he wears long hats to cover his ears, attempts a shoddy beard to round out his chin, and has been tempted even to put tufts of cotton in his clothes to puff out his ropey frame.
Mercenary: Delta
direction the world has pushed her. She is a free spirit from the way she lets her sandy blonde hair push out to its furthest potential, to her insistence that she not stay in one town too long, being a nomad is her bedrock.
Innkeeper: Westin Knobbyknock
Westin Knobbyknock is the heady type. A man with his thoughts in the clouds, searching for meaning and purpose within the threads of details hidden in the world. His mundane life as an innkeeper is suitable for making ends meet and he likes how this role brings so many new faces, perspectives and tales his way.