11, 21, 33 😤
11. Favorite NPC's I've played gonna do a rapid fire round of ones from each of my games: LMoP - Venomfang the dragon who became the bbeg, Linagroth - Silus, Seer of Storms and Patron of the PC's, Altruism - The Orphan King or Jerry, I enjoyed the former as a character, the demigod patron of the pcs, but the latter was so much fun because of how reviled he was, Monster Keep - Slex the Mind Flayer, similar to Jerry, this guy was absolutely despised from moment 1 but I loved him for it, Glitterhearts - Specter, a villain, its always so interesting to figure out what xe will do in a given circumstance, Magic Sword - Cantator Brass, also a villain, for the 18 seconds he was alive, 21. Where do I draw inspo from?
Usually some mixture of media will inspire me for a games conceit, I'll use a game that hasn't happened yet for an example, Unkindled, my 2nd level wizard horror short game, draws some from Naddpod on its Hexblood arc of a short story elsewhere in the world of the main game, though Unkindled is no longer attached to a larger campaign it inspired me for the shortform satisfaction, Hexbloods also was the inspiration for the monoclass game design. Meanwhile I was thinking a lot about resident evil 7 as I was exploring my interest in horror, and that drew inspiration for some of the design choices that I won't say because of spoilers, and perhaps most prevelantly, reading a good rpg sourcebook always sets the brain alight. 33. Slex pisses literally everyone off, presumably, sets his staff on the wall, and head and ass depart for the library. (For context, Head and Ass were the names of the two heads of an Ettin that was a pc played by 2 people)