14 Favorite NPC
This is a toughie, as none really sticks
out in my mind. I guess Fafhrd in a Lankhmar game I once played in my teens.
He
showed up when I was trying to get my character lucky with a barmaid under the
table in a bar (I know, lame teenage gamer move), and Big Red smacked my
character upside the head and gave him a lecture about treating the ladies. Sure
it was a Mary Sue moment, but well done and a bit of a ‘life lesson’ inside the
game about how we should comport ourselves outside it. The DM ran it well and
it sticks with me as a good example of how to use famous NPCs especially – not to
steal the limelight from the heroes, but to make them even more heroic.
15 Favorite Undead
Has to be Liches. Zombies and skeletons are
really iconic at low levels, but when you’re ready to face a lich, you know you’re
in the big time.
I have a dim recollection of sitting in on a session at the
end of Tomb of Horrors, running a thief and being exhorted by the other players
to throw a gem at the lich to finish him off. I still dunno why this worked, and
thought this a bit of a lame meta gamey deus-ex-machina, but overall the idea
of a lich or crypt-thing waiting in their tomb, plotting and evilly intelligent
is one of the scariest concepts in the sometimes absurd world of fantasy games.
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