So I’m a bit late to the
party, but through one of my favorite YouTube channels, Casting Shadows I’ve
discovered RPGaDay. This is a community of people and answering questions about
their expirences with tabletop roleplaying, for those that don’t know what that
means, think Dungeons and Dragons and games like it. I’ve dabbled in this in
the past, but over the last few months I’ve really dove headfirst into it, and
play once a week, with three rotating games, one with me as a GM, the other two
as a player. So without much futher adu I’ll get to answering some of these
questions, and since I missed the first few days I’ll start by doing the prompt
for both days for this weekend (4 and 5) to kick things off!
Day 4:
What was your most memorable NPC?
For this one I’ll pick
an NPC I encountered as a player. This comes from my first campaign, a Final
Flight Star Wars game where I play a young man from Naboo who discovers he is
force sensitive and goes into hiding, ending up trapped on a mysterious planet.
On the planet he met a variety of interesting characters including; the other
PCs, pirates, and imperials. These imperials, for the most part weren’t harden
Stormtroopers, but security officers on a trade ship, including one officer
Lilo.
Lilo started off as a
random NPC, introduced alongside a character named Stitch, but he quickly
developed into a character caught between his duty and his mortality. He became
a complex character and a great ally for the group, but particularly for my PC.
He overcame his conflict to overthrow the imperial bosses who were torturing
and sacrificing civilians.
After a long drawn out
campaign where we finally escaped that terrible planet, and the player characters
left divided and on a bitter note (in the game, in real life it was a blast) we
all had solo adventures, getting his family off Courasont.
While it has been a
while since I’ve seen Lilo we are nearing the end of our second arc and calls
have gone out to many old NPC friends, including one I made to Lilo. With any
luck he will be rejoining me and my allies to find a lost treasure on a
dangerous planet!
Day 5
What is your favorite NPC?
With the questions for
this weekend being similar I decided to do the second one from a GM’s perspective,
and I want to talk about a character I made that quickly became beloved by my
players.
Running a one shot heist
the players were betrayed by a sketchy group of ruffians who tried to murder
them and take their gold after selling the group some goods. When only one of
the ruffians remained he threw up his hands begging for mercy, and I quickly
chose a stereotypical 40s mobster voice for him.
He told the party his
name, Islos, and they spared his life, in exchange for him working for them,
and helping them complete their heist. A bond quickly formed between the
players and the lovable scamp, who helped them get out of a few jams. By the
end of the session he was essentially a member of the party.
I gave him a full
character sheet for the next time we played, when the one shot was a quest to
rescue him. The third session however would prove dire for Islos. The players
were facing a mysterious wall with a mysterious stone obelisk in the middle
deep underground. The only clue of how to move forward was etched on the stone
in a long forgotten language. When the evil warlock of the group used iden tify
he realized they needed a sacrifice to move forward, and he murdered Islos,
which shocked and mortified the group. The other players won’t let him live it
down to this day.
Eventually Islos’ body
was placed in a tomb alongside the dwarven kings of millennia past, a fitting
place for such a noble soul.
