Comments on: Gamemastering NPCs: Part Two http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/non-fiction/columns/gamemastering-npcs-part-two/ From Modern Mythcraft to Magical Surrealism Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:11:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Katana Geldar http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/non-fiction/columns/gamemastering-npcs-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-11700 Katana Geldar Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:59:58 +0000 http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/?p=3739#comment-11700 "Some players seem to think NPCs function as they do in videogames– possessing limited dialogue branches, providing fetch quests, vomiting exposition, or to be killed without consequence." Unfortunately, there are some GMs who thing this way too which pisses me off for as a gamer I think more like a storyteller and think of NPCs more or less as well-rounded characters who just don't cater to the whims of the PCs. Is there any wonder why I so often refuse to go down his plotrails as I just KNOW that it's poorly conceived? “Some players seem to think NPCs function as they do in videogames– possessing limited dialogue branches, providing fetch quests, vomiting exposition, or to be killed without consequence.”

Unfortunately, there are some GMs who thing this way too which pisses me off for as a gamer I think more like a storyteller and think of NPCs more or less as well-rounded characters who just don’t cater to the whims of the PCs.

Is there any wonder why I so often refuse to go down his plotrails as I just KNOW that it’s poorly conceived?

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