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Original Concept and Design: Martin Ralya Project Manager: Phil Vecchione Design: John Arcadian, Patrick Benson, Walt Ciechanowski. yearstime in your shoes gave me perspective on my life and helped me shape myself into the person I wanted to be. Don Mappin, Scott Martin, Matthew Neagley, Kurt Telas Schneider, Troy Taylor, Phil Vecchione Trait Design: Matthew Neagley.
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With special thanks to C. Cline for writing The 7-Sentence NPC in DRAGON Magazine Augustwhich inspired this book In memory of Jack Vasel and Amber Blackburn, masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download. entertained me in the games I have run and played: Alex, Arion, Erland, Drake, Gabe, Merik, Spenser, Owen, Tai-Nu, and Tessa. Thank you.
Wed also like to collectively dedicate this book to the readers of Gnome Stew and all of the GMs who bought our rst book, Eureka.
Without all of you, Masks wouldnt exist. You rock! MASKS: 1, Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, Engine Publishing, the Engine Publishing logo, and the truncated gear device are trademarks of Engine Publishing, LLC. MASKS: 1, Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game is copyright as a whole, including all artwork, by Engine Publishing, LLC; all rights reserved.
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Gnome Stew, The Game Mastering Blog, and the Gnome Stew logo are trademarks of Martin Ralya. The Engine Publishing logo was designed by Darren Hardy. Published by Engine Publishing, LLC in July FiNDiNg THE PERfECT NPC. NPCS bY TRAiTS. Whether you call yourself a game master, dungeon master, referee, judge, or keeper, you have one most important skill: You can show o a character in half a dozen ways.
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In fact, its expected. So, you feel the joy of improvisation when a new NPC is thrust into the spotlight, and the rush of having the party question exactly the character youve fully prepared and thought through, masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download.
You get the satisfaction of seeing the players follow the plan and love the ride. Its an masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download dierent and much more panicky rush when the players take a sudden left turn and leave your plans in ruinsWait, they want to talk to the beggar prince instead of the wizard oering a treasure map? In those instances, a novice game master may say But you cant do that! or Thats not the adventure!
The experienced game master says, Well, are you sure? and then proceeds to go o on a wild excursion with new faces that become regulars, or foes whom the players learn to fear. Ultimately, all roleplaying games are about imaginary people and places, and the people part is the crucial one. Players rarely dwell on descriptions of scenery, but they parse every clue from a villains speech, and they will thoroughly question an evil high priests servants and followers for hints of his plans. Even the good-guy NPCs can really set the mood of a game session: the faithful armorer, the innkeeper who oers ale and a song to the conquering heroes, the arch-wizard who always, always turns someone into a frog.
These are the friendly faces your players are praying their characters will see again when they miscalculate their odds against a dragon. So, a well-rehearsed game master is always the man or woman of 1, faces, and can play any part with full details, hooks, quirks, and weaknesses, enough so that the NPCs voice or manner alone will tell the players who is speaking. Whether masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download do everything in-character or through description, you are the actor or director giving life to well-rounded, well-loved, well-respected, and well-feared voices.
Nothing is more useful to mastering that sort of toolkit than a wide selection of stock characters, and this volume oers you that in multitudes. Read it cover-to-cover or browse it as needed, and bookmark the ones you know youll use next week. For the most jaded grognards among us, let me throw out a challenge: Choose a character archetype thats not your usual style and see whether you can pull it o. You will certainly surprise your players. You may surprise yourself. A new character is like an introduction at a party: Anything might happen.
So, read on and then make some introductions! Your players will surely be pleased to make their acquaintance. Wolfgang Baur Kirkland, WA June Welcome to M ASKS: 1, Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, the second book from Engine Publishing and the authors of Gnome Stewand thank you for buying it! Im Martin Ralya, the founder of Engine Publishing and the owner of, and one of the contributors to, the game mastering blog Gnome Stew gnomestew.
comand Id like to tell you a little bit about Masks and why its so damned huge. After our rst book, EUReKA: Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, received rave reviews, became a PDF bestseller on DriveThruRPG www. comexceeded our wildest sales expectations, and was nominated for a Golden Geek Award for Best Supplement, and Gnome Stew won the silver GenCon EN World RPG Award for Best Blog, we thought to ourselves, Oh, shit.
Now people will expect us to do this again! Were passionate about GMing, and about system-neutral resources, and as it happened we had a sexy idea for another book: this one, our second swing for the fences, masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download. Before Eureka came out, we were told that a system-neutral book of adventure plots would be a tough sell; afterwards, some folks pointed out that it would have sold better as three separate books, one for each major genre.
And you know what? It probably would have. As three separate books, we could have sold each miniEureka for more than a third of the price of the big book, and likely made more money. So why didnt we? Because Eureka was conceived as the ultimate adventure toolkit, a resource for every GM of every skill level, and was based on the premise that you can easily adapt a plot from one genre to suit another genre.
Splitting it up would have masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download against masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download ideals, and the same is true of Masks. We believe that this is the ultimate NPC resource, a book that can nd a happy home on every GMs bookshelf, and that its useful in part because its insanely comprehensive and works well irrespective of what game or games you play.
When we started working on Masks, I knew in the back of my mind that if we didnt hit the ball harder and farther with this product, people would call our rst bookand our amazing creative team, and this companya ash in the pan.
So we went big: Compared to Eureka, Masks is longer, hardcover instead of softcover, includes nearly double the amount of interior artwork 81 pieces vs. Packed into this massive tome are a thousand distinctive, fascinating characters that you can use in any RPG, as well as indexes to help you nd the ones you need and advice on making your portrayal of these and other NPCs unforgettable, masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download.
To the best of our knowledge, its the largest resource of its kindbig, ballsy, nerdy, and made with a great deal of love. Producing Masks was a hell of a ride. We hope youll enjoy it for years to come.
Martin Ralya Salt Lake City, UT June When you portray a character, its like putting on a mask: your mannerisms change, and your players perceive you dierently in their imaginations.
In this chapter, well show you how to put on the 1, masks in this book and how to deliver a performance your players will never forget. This is a big book, but its also designed to be as easy to use on the y masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download it is during game prep: Just ip to any NPC page, read some or all of one entry, and youll have enough information to play that NPC to the hilt. The template we designed for Masks makes it a breeze to use the book this way. To help you get the most out of Masks, weve provided GMing advice, tips, tricks, and tools in the seven sections of this chapter: How to Use this Book, Anatomy of a Masks NPC, masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download, Adapting and Re-Skinning Characters, Making Your Characters Memorable, masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download, Genres, Traits, and The Invisible Keywords.
We wrote these characters, but its you who will bring them to life, work them into your games, and hopefully use Masks for the rest of your GMing career. HOW TO USE THiS BOOK Game Mastering If you want to dive in and start using M ASKS: 1, Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game right away, you can skip this chapterthis book is designed to be used on the y, with no prep or delays.
But if youre not in a hurry, youll nd a wealth of GMing advice, as well as information on how get the most out of Masks, in this chapter. WHAT IS A MASK? When you portray a character in a roleplaying game, its like putting on a mask. You act dierently, masks 1000 memorable npcs pdf download, assuming a persona to match the mask, and your players perceive you dierently in their minds eyesjust as if you were actually wearing a mask.
This book provides 1, masksa thousand vivid, memorable characters and the details you need to portray them convincingly to your players. FiNDiNg THE PERfECT NPC Whether you need a non-player character NPC right this hot minute or for next weeks game night, weve made it easy for you to nd the kind of character youre looking for. Heres how Masks NPCs are organized: Genre: Characters in Masks are divided into three intentionally broad genres: fantasysci-and modern Because the core elements of a great character have nothing to do with genre, you can use almost every character in this book in your game regardless of genre.
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