At 06:04 PM 10/28/99 -0500, Robert A. Howard wrote: >Have you ever encountered a situation when your favorite NPC just has to >leave the game? [snip] >So, what tales do you have of NPCs doing the unexpected? > [Completely off topic -- Rob, Devon has come to light in another game as well, taking on the name Vaughn, and bringing my own version of Anna with her as well... I needed a pair of NPCs fast, and well, they just sort of wandered in and sat down. *grins* No Marcus tho... of course, she's also still a guy at the moment!] Good NPCs *always* do the unexpected. *grins* I've had one NPC who I tried to write out many times, and now, 500 years later, I think she might still be around. She hasn't told me doing *what* yet, though. It seems to me sometimes that the NPCs more run me, than I run them. They're like my PCs, and they do things I don't expect. Or tell me things halfway through the game. Or simply seem to have plots of their own. And yes, sometimes they leave because its the only logical thing to do. One thing I *have* learned tho. While I might *miss* an NPC horribly, I'll kill them, or have them leave if its right for the character, or for the story. I don't tryto save an NPC from the party just because I like them (my PCs in various games have killed off many of my favorite NPC "villians" *sigh*). I just go along with what the NPCs seem to want. Also, remember... sometimes writing them out doesn't mean they are *gone*. In fact, if they hate someone that much, they might be actively working against them, in the belief that he is loose on the world and must be stopped. After all, Devon was a stubborn and opionated little brat. *grins* D. +-------------------------------------------------+ | Deb Allen (Atwood?) / D-Singer / Tryslora | | d-singer@albany.net / deb_allen@fac.com | | http://www.albany.net/~d-singer | +-------------------------------------------------+ | The Black Road -- an Amber DRPG Convention | | http://www.theblackroad.org | +-------------------------------------------------+ | "You must never run from anything immortal. It | | attracts their attention." | | - _The_Last_Unicorn_ | +-------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/ Tech support questions go to support@phoenyx.net.
