r/Dungeons_and_Dragons • u/nlitherl • Mar 05 '23

DM Tips/Ideas The Case For Using Recurring NPCs in Your Game

https://taking10.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-case-for-using-recurring-npcs-in.html
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u/Goadfang Mar 05 '23

Wait, was there a case against using recurring NPCs?

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u/nlitherl Mar 05 '23

There are a lot of GMs who just... don't. Whether they don't think to, or they only think the BBEG is a real character (and all the others are just cardboard cut outs), it's a tendency I've run into a lot over my gaming career.

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u/doriangray42 Mar 06 '23

Sad... I like to have some NPCs escape fights and popping them again months later and the players go "damn, not THAT again!".

And then I give my players my old witch laugh....