The NPC with a Thousand Faces

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Platform PC (Windows)
Release Date 6/3/2020
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Used by over 9000 DMs, Writers, and Roleplayers!

Customer Testimonials

"This is SO useful! I think I'm going to roll up several NPCs to have on hand, as the book suggests. I especially like the Villain Plan tables! (5/5)"

"I found the tables and explanations to be comprehensive and helpful. It's easy to make up an NPC, but creating a rounded character players will interact with over time can be difficult. This gave some great tools to make that easier. (5/5)"

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It's happened to all of us: the players decide to speak to an NPC you didn't prepare for. The most you have is a name and maybe even a race -- but you're drawing blanks! Who is this barkeep? What do they really want in life? What are their struggles?

The NPC With a Thousand Faces is a technique I've built to generate NPCs from my over 17 years of running Tabletop Games with a menagerie of systems. It's Fast! It's Flexible! It's Focused! It's Table-Tested!

Rescue yourself from those awkward moments that threaten to pull players out of the experience -- or hand the book over to them to assist them rolling up a fascinating new character that goes beyond a sheet with a class and lists of equipment and powers.

Included in this 24 Page Supplement:

- The 1000 Faces Technique

- 48 fast, d100-based, tables that make rolling up a complex character a snap

- Blistering fast, diceless (because sometimes you don't want players to know you haven't rolled this NPC up), tables inspired by Bantam Books' Choose your own Adventure Series' Diceless Random Rolls to help you instantly add depth.

- 100 pre-rolled NPCs Traits customized for a variety of genres! (Fantasy, Sci-fi, Western, Eastern, and Horror)

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