Describe an NPC you'd like to include in a future campaign in one or two sentences

We can only pray that the merciful RayK will listen to our prayers and give new games with Nephy/Aurelia routes.

Friendly, helpful shopkeeper who may or may not actually be fuckig the devil.

Leader of a rival warband, but is actually the plotting a coup against the current monarch.

God is too old for this shit. That's why she drinks.

Old former adventurer mentoring the party, may or may not be the BBEG

A young wizard whose desire for self-reliance is severely hampered by the fact that she's a total coward.

>An older forgotten god that spends her time running a merchant caravan because she is super bored and wanted something to do.

A grand hero who was once the best around now that he is past his prime he spends his days at the local adventure hall getting drunk and bothering other parties to take his old ass with him.

Everyone in town says thinks he wants money as he is in crippling debt
Some say he wants to selfishly relive the old glory days.

(He just wants to die in battle like his friends he wants to die a hero)

Dark elf rumrunner. Secretly a woman.

Kobold who lost his very large family in a fire. Is now a rich adventurer funded by the life insurance policies his uncle had taken out on everyone.

An elf fortune teller trying to make a living by divining people's futures and speaking to their lost loved ones through mild necromancy. Having a lot of trouble since an incident that caused him to lose his license for the latter and has him being watched closely by the authorities.

That's Kira, right?

The helpful if not slightly off putting Exigent of Puns

...Holo?

He's a shipwreck survivor. He doesn't remember his own name and is forever referred to as Who Am I?

A group of 2-3 arch-wizards who alternate between trying to guide the party to achieve their goal (out of mutual interest) and backstabbing eachother.

So Ningauble and Sheelba?

A man who culls his own kin to contain a growing local virus. Long since gave up trying to find a cure.

A random homeless guy who dresses up as a wizard, he may or may not be one.
I have a guy where I live who everyone just calls "The Wizard" for his staff, Disney blanket cloak, and pikachu hat.

Moustache-twirling, cackling, grumbling, scheming, incredibly insane old hobo deluded into believing disillusions of immortality, immense power, brilliance, that he's respected and feared by all, and that he's a "Warlock Lord". He has no gift in the arcane, much less anything dark, but still manages to make the overall situation worse when he shows up despite his ineptitude in battle. May or may not have a dead wife and have once been the cultist of the God of Torture and Insanity

An old, war-weathered king who is famous for being a both a brilliant tactician and brutally effective soldier. As a youth he was known as a dandy, socialite and aesthete, but after the execution of his best friend and lieutenant he cut himself off from other people almost entirely, devoting himself to a misguided pursuit of purely rational leadership.

>even an old woman like me
HNGGGG, what is it about that phrase that makes me diamonds? Older women are the best! Even Benji realized this nearly 300 years ago.

swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/51-fra.html

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It's because older women are typically experienced in sex and romance, but at the same time feel unnoticed by the young bucks of the country.

Holy shit, I never realized that a) Pornography is illegal in South Korea, and b) Rape apparently is.

A gruff lieutenant of a local neophobic group. The group generally hates the party for joining a revived warrior-diplomat organization since some asshole destroyed parts of the town and its' reputation abroad. The lieutenant hates them because the party is nothing compared to the old recruits and might sink the town's reputation further, so he tries to rein in his group from doing too much party-detrimental things. In addition, he tries to help the party in the form of bitchy advice and occasional loot.

A cute boxy little magical construct who maintains a dungeon and is perfectly nice to the party. She just wants them to beat some sense into some "unruly tenants" who've set up shop in her place and are wresting magical control of the dungeon from her. Killing/convincing/liberating from mind control/whatever enough monsters lets the construct get more control of the place and allows her to help indirectly (Knock a troll into a doorway? She causes the door to slide down and pin it)

A necromancer living in the reanimated corpse of some large monster. She goes around making it walk wherever. Sometimes sells baubles from her travels.

A magic user with a withered arm that may or may not become a magic Hitler depending on how much you fuck up his life.

A dark violet gelatinous, eldritch abomination with a humanoid torso rising from a mass of tendrils, eyes and silently whispering maws. Hangs out in dungeons and uses magics beyond time and space to buy and sell magical gear.

I'm stealing this and I'm not sorry.

PLEASE LET THIS BE REAL SWEET JESUS HEAR MY PRAYERS

>may or may not actually be the fucking devil.

You're welcome.

In my setting the race has a sort of hive mind back to their progenitor and each one them meet seems to "remember" the party.

If they develop a favorable relationship the party is given a bud with with little eyes, mouths and tendrils that helps them locate other members of the race (and vice versa, so the race can expand/relocate members into more profitable locations ahead of the party.)

Loving this thread, keep it going

An incompetent kobold wizard who runs a local cabal of similarly incompetent kobold wizards. Attempts to get the group to call themselves "Kabalds" have gone poorly, but he remains optimistic and sincerely believes he is the BBEG.

A spooky skeleton created from the combined sacred relic-bones of dozens of fallen paladins. Intended by its creator to be the ultimate insult to paladinhood, but awoke with the combined heroism of 144 paladins, rebelled against his master, and really wants to help the party become friends of justice.

A magical girl who is in over her head. The monsters she's meant to fight are way tougher than she is and the town is losing hope.

Local mob boss has a bodyguard. The bodyguard is rumored to never sleep, never eat or drink, never talk and never leave the master's side. When anybody actually takes effort to tail them, all the rumors would appear true.

It's identical twins taking shifts. They have elaborate scheme for inconspicuous swaps and are paid handsomely for all the trouble of keeping appearances.

That sounds almost exactly like the king in my setting. Only he's an emperor and it was his brother that was killed.

Source? Google only assures me this is a person

>may or may not be the BBEG

She certainly irradiates that aura with how the picture depicts her as being a little scary, but she also is giving these cougar vibes. Don't know what to think about that.

I don't know what it is about a hobo being recognized by the whole community that's... idk but both pleasurable and sad.

There's a guy in my grandmother's bumfuck nowhere town who's homeless and has had trouble with just about every drug on the market. Everyone calls him "The Runner" because that's all you see him do. Guy barely eats and lives off alcohol but somehow for years he's been running all over town.

he also slightly resembles Tom Hanks from far away with his beard

[Sayman] Doubt

Infuriating hypercompetent French metrosexual who keeps fucking the party over. He's working against the Big Bad and using the resources he nicked from the party better than they could have. He won't ally with them because he's an asshole.

Years ago in my town there was a man called Umbrella Pete. He had a comfortable white collar office job, but got drafted and after he came back from the war he left that business and ended up homeless. He would spend every day out on the bridge between the east and west sides of town selling umbrellas.

A master criminal, thief and con-man, who runs with a crew of his own. The PCs won't initially be trying to stop his schemes, just sort of there when they happen. He's one of those tactically brilliant types, who has planned for eventualities beyond what the party might expect, and is perfectly willing to run away to fight another day. He might even try to frame the party for some of his own exploits.

Lawful Good member of the Queens Guard is actually a Chaotic Evil mass murderer leading unapproved raids against her enemies. He actually does love the Neutral Good Queen and just wants to protect her smile.

Angry old Gnomish monk who wants to run a quiet inn.

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I would mer the fuck out of her chant, if you know what I mean.

I don't know what I mean, please send help

>They're all the same doppelganger

Paladin who acts like a modern police officer, complete with donut addiction.

Modern fantasy fey who takes the form of a cartoon character to fuck with the party.

Buddy cop pair, one a short, redheaded Irish woman with an attitude and chain smoking problem, the other an uptight German dude who only relaxes when he's smashed out of his mind. They fight crime, help the player characters and plow on the side.

Bridge bunny/secretary/subordinate who tries to seduce his/her commander in a sci-fi setting but fails constantly and in increasingly humiliating ways, the object completely unaware.

A pool shark wizard.

Three corporate security guards that are present at every heist/break in/investigation/etc the players take part in. Yes, even if they were killed.

A wandering swordswoman who carries an instrument native to her land. She believes when someone asks her what it is, she's gone far enough and will begin searching the area for wrongs to right.

Fan of hobos and such, eh?
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Coincidentally I've just finished working out doppelgangers for the setting. They aren't smart enough to be that convincing as a person. They can typically fool someone just long enough to get up close so they can kill and eat the poor bastard.

Is this real?

Literally Randall Flagg.

Ok, that's spooky if I hover over the word doppelganger perfectly alights with your post's usage of doppelganger.

So as not to off topic (too bad):
A high ranking Officer who is tasked with pitting down a rebellion the players are a part of. Tries to balance being a decent human being and doing their job enough that they aren't replaced with someone with less qualms with using abhorrent tactics.

A wizard shopkeep who sells obviously dubious items that always turn out to be useful somehow.

Describe your dick.

Great a reverse politician

A blacksmith who can only speak backwards after a brutal bar-fight injury

Google once told me an anime girl was a "fictional character". Thanks Google, never would have figured that one out.

I want to have a truly cowardly, evil whore face the party as an antagonist. She'd be super haughty and quite powerful, but run away if she looked like she was in trouble. If the party managed to corner her somehow, she'd get real desparate, real fast. Throw down some big ass spells with expensive material components and use magic items and shit, definitely playing as dirty as possible, too. If all that doesn't work, she'd throw her pride to the dirt and bargain for her life with promises of power and wealth. Then she'd offer to sell out her comrades, trll the party everything she knew. Then promises of sexual favors, and finally she'd break down and straight up beg for her life like a pathetic, savage animal.

Haven't done it because it's in my magical realm and seems too obviously so, but these are generally the kind of characters I make when I have the chance to play instead of GM.

An Ogre wearing armour of +Intelligence. He's searching for a way to make the Intelligence permanent as he fears being dumb again.

I always wanted to make a quirky lich with a love for puns as a recurring villain.
He would do all kinds of over-the-top mischief to get the attention of the party, and go out of his way to not kill them, as he has a lot of fun messing with them.

Some kind of bored-to-death vampire, who steals a tome of dark secrets, only to put it under the leg of his wobbling table.

Kind and friendly shopkeeper the party keeps returning to for supplies and to hang out, and who always has something good for them cheap, or something to try out. The party would grow fond of him and fear the moment I kill him for impact, but I won't :3

Shopkeep who may in fact be a ten year old in a fake beard pretending to be a gnome.

Make him a pothead, who describes everything in his shop as "uh, it does all kinds of magic and stuff, I guess", while smoking a fat blunt and constantly adjusting his glasses

A half-orc warrior in forbidden love with a gnome

a cat that seems to show up when ever something important is happening. people in the know about how the universe works either act respectfully towards it or start freaking out and refuse to answer any questions as to why.

what seems to be the undead revenant of a local batman like figure who seems to be able to teleport.
is actually a trio of super soldiers he gave his life to save who now try to live on his legacy.
fighting them is more like fighting a swat team then just your average group of heroes.

Sans.

A nice middle aged man who helps the party out of a rough spot only for them to later find out that he is actually a wanted war criminal who is responsible for the torture and murder of thousands.

A small band of children running a potion stand, with glasses and pitchers of elixirs. The potions are fairly weak but rather cheap.

If they survive the campaign and live to adulthood they open a tavern that has exclusively magical food.

Laughably racist paladin. Pic related.

But does he Praise?

A reclusive gorgon/medusa diviner called "The veiled oracle." The idea is she'd be described to the PCs as just an oracle and they have to consult her because plot, but it's only when they finally meet her do they realise what she is and then have to decide if whatever information she can offer is worth any inherent danger. She may or may not demand they look into her eyes (through the namesake veil) for her powers to work.

Be sure to have stones on the bottom of the river look vaguely like scales when viewed from the correct angle.

Heroic Paladin who is loved by the common folk for his heroic adventures.
All those adventures where orchestrated by secretly evil Group that uses him as a figure head/mascot.
He does not know that and thinks he is a real hero.

A once great cleric made feeble by mercury poisoning, which was apparently blessed.

Demon samurai of the mountain. He is actually a drunkard scoundrel who uses his rep to intimidate people.

Ceri, is this you?

A paranoid soldier that communicates exclusively through gunfire and hand signals.
A conscientious crusader that says "Deus lo vult" rather than "DEUS LO VULT!!!hurr1!!"
A pyrophobic Sister of Battle that cleanses heretics with high-pressure water cannons and tear gas.
A psychic octopus. No real reason, I just like cephalopods.
A gladiatorial arena master that insists on changing who lives and who dies just before the coup de grace. Pic related.

Little girl with obvious and unnerving brain parasite.