D&D NPC's

[Kimiko]

Looking for a few good ideas for a NPC compilation I'm trying to put together. In general these should be fully fleshed-out NPC's with all statistics, backgrounds, personalities, etc. If anyone has any interesting ones, I'd love to see them

[Xiona]

i put on my wizard hat and robe....

[Kimiko]

Yeah, by the time you've got your robe and hat on, my epic sorceress & prismatic dragon companion have already killed you a few times over.

[Sheeny]

i put on my wizard hat and robe....

Win!

[Kimiko]

This is what happens when you get forced to work Easter Sunday and get told since it's only a religious holiday that you don't get paid extra for it. Now god dammit I wanna see fracking NPC's!

[Wilimac]

Make a John Waters npc. Hes so creepy that your players will just laugh their ass off.

[Akiyama]

i put on my wizard hat and robe....

It's "I put on my robe and wizard hat"..

[Metah]

i put on my wizard hat and robe....

It's "I put on my robe and wizard hat"..

Thank God I'm not the only one who noticed that. Your win has been revoked. You have now been issued a fail.

[Kaelan]

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f115/Kaelan_/Hola.jpg

[coronamad]

I don't have one, and I'm pretty sure Wizards of the Coast doesn't have one, but there are a few character generators out there to help design NPCs. I know one of our DMs uses a generator pretty extensively.

But if you're looking for a character aside from that, what level do you want him/her/it? I could probably come up with something, like an old character.

[Xiona]

i knew it looked weird when i typed it haha, oh well you got the point i was going with lol

[Maguspk]

This might be the nerdiest thread to grace General Discussion.

[Kimiko]

This might be the nerdiest thread to grace General Discussion.

It's either that or start randomly deprovisioning modems at work. Either way it's fun.

[Devek]

I would love to play some D&D, but I don't know anyone where I live that plays and also bathes regularly.. so instead I play http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple ... puter_game)

[Totien]

Depending on the setting, Hellsworn NPCs can be pretty interesting.

Dryads that have been afflicted by a change allignment spell are fun too.

[Xiona]

if youre a GM just make them on the fly with stats you think of lol

[BRP]

Anyone who thinks playing a MMORPG is less nerdier than DnD hasn't play DnD. And additionally, this isn't the spam forum, stop with the stupid responses.

I don't have any interesting facts on me now... but this site you might find a lot of fun to play with: http://d20npcs.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

(You are talking about d20 3.5 right?)

[Kaylia]

if youre a GM just make them on the fly with stats you think of lol

Easier said than done. Customizing a dnd character to make it powerful is a pain in the ass, there is too many skills/feat/spell/items, and not all combo are good. Players are always overpowered, and will assrape anything you put in their way if you didnt spend 2 hours making something midly powerful.

Stacking magical stuff on your npc doesnt work well either because the players will loot them after one shotting your npc >_>

[BRP]

if youre a GM just make them on the fly with stats you think of lol

Easier said than done. Customizing a dnd character to make it powerful is a pain in the ass, there is too many skills/feat/spell/items, and not all combo are good. Players are always overpowered, and will assrape anything you put in their way if you didnt spend 2 hours making something midly powerful.

Stacking magical stuff on your npc doesnt work well either because the players will loot them after one shotting your npc >_>

Yeah, DnD is a bit broken like that... which is why I love Iron Heroes.

The last time I DM'ed a DnD game... which was quite awhile ago... I made these five house rules(among others) which did a nice fix on the powerlevel:

-Power Attack gives .5 / 1 / 1.5 bonuses (like in 3.0)
-Power Attack is limited by your STR mod + 2. (to make up for this: I added a feat which allowed you ignore 1/2 of DR with Power Attack, and another feat that allowed you ignore all of it)
-Toned down magic items a bit... practically removed the ones that "everyone has" like Cloak of Resistance.
-High-powered spells were very hard to get... I treated them like magic weapons of the highest tier. There was a side-quest to get one or two new spells.
-I used the Action Points variant... I would give Action Points to important NPCs and gave them the ability to "Drop to 1 HP instead of dying or going 0 or below". I would use this one often to increase the length of the battle.

[Kaylia]

-I used the Action Points variant... I would give Action Points to important NPCs and gave them the ability to "Drop to 1 HP instead of dying or going 0 or below". I would use this one often to increase the length of the battle

Problem is that when you play with more than 1 player, there is usually 100-200 more dmg incoming before the npc get his turn again. It's too easy to get absurd damage like 1d10+70 per attack with low chance of missing.

It's almost impossible to balance thing out without making the fight impossible or using cheap tactic that would make players angry.