queen-aeducan:

8rcs:

8rcs:

as a dm my favorite thing about starting a new dnd campaign is prepping all of these throw away npcs, and some npcs that could be worth keeping/revisiting, but knowing if you fuck up and do something like make an npc too pathetic, or name a goblin ‘devin’ or something youre going to have to account for the players deciding that this is the character they want to keep around

the notes on this post are leading me to believe you can’t actually name a goblin anything or the players will demand to keep them around. you cant win.

name them something dungeons and dragons style like gurzart and its memorable, cause you’re not going to mix them up with a different character

name them something human like devin or ricardo and theyre going to be friends

name them something like pickle and youre fucked. youre absolutely fucked. you have to give pickle a character arc now. it has to be heartwarming and heartbreaking, and so satisfying.

i can literally attest to the npc named pickle needing to have a character arc. made an early throw away npc cat named pumpkin - the party loved pumpkin so much, pumpkin developed into a complex character arc where he is the right hand of one of the most powerful gods in game universe and has a cat husband, butternut.