These NPC Techniques Transformed My D&D Campaigns

Storytelling and world building are very important, but without NPCs, they are dead. NPCs give your game a living element that cannot be found elsewhere.

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—Chapters—

0:00 Hero Quest
1:16 How Important Are NPCs?
2:21 90s and 2000s - What I Experienced
6:35 Without NPCs, Stories and Worlds Are Dead
7:56 A NPC Can Represent an Entire Faction or Location
11:37 Creating NPCs - Technique 1 (Barebones Approach)
14:48 Creating NPCs - Technique 2 (Comprehensive Approach)
15:15 Example NPC - Forfolskit (freaky sewer troll)
16:39 Example NPC - Feloxior (shapeshifting trickster dragon)
23:34 Template for the Comprehensive Approach
24:45 How NPCs Can Get Players Engaged and Invested
26:10 Monstrous Heroes
26:35 Thanks