The Game Master's Book of Non-Player Characters: 500+ unique bartenders, brawlers, mages, merchants, royals, rogues, sages, sailors, warriors, weirdos ... RPG adventures (The Game Master Series)

The only reason I wanted this book was to add to my Game Masters collection. Normally I’d make up NPCs of my own. However, I’ve discovered SOOO many useful details and inspirations to better design my characters from reading this book. Everything in it helps me develop better characters and offers so much more in developing populations and story content for my games. Originally I took this book for granted, but now I’m looking forward to using it and adding more interesting characters to my future games. Whether you’re a new DM or a veteran, I highly recommend getting this valuable resource for your next game.

Great book. Really easy to read and plenty of content. It includes 3 detailed one shot adventures and lots of premade NPC’s. I originally thought this book was a guide on how to make NPC’s but it’s not. This book is a book of premade NPC’s and there are lots of NPC’s with illustrations and stat blocks. It’s super helpful and really spices up the game play. Definitely worth the money

This book recouped its value before I ever purchased it. When browsing the book, I opened to a random page in the middle, and read one of the NPCs described. I was immediately fascinated by the character, and introduced it to my next session. My players loved her, and she's quickly becoming a central part of the story. This book is now a corner stone of my games. There's always something really neat that I can find, that gets my creative juices flowing. For any interested, the character in question, is an 8 year-old girl who frequents a tavern in a large city. She drinks like a sailor, and has a bastard sword strapped to her belt that is as big as she is, and drags along the ground as she walks. She yearns to become an adventurer. The sword in question contains the soul of her father, a Death Knight, which is slowly corrupting her, draining her soul, so he can live again in the shell of his daughter's body. The girl is sweet, innocent, and excitable with a brightness in her eyes, that is replaced with an exuberant bloodlust in combat.

This is a great hardbound, two colors throughout, with a few small adventures, dozens of ready to use non-player characters, and random generation tables for NPCs and side quests. The material is well thought out and well written with the capacity to save GMs hours of work.

The book contains fleshed out NPCs with a brief description, a catch phrase, equipment, motivation, profession, and a secret desire. Some NPCs come with stat blocks. The names also come with nicknames. So very valuable to a DM prepping a game session. Not so good for the DM needing an NPC on the fly. The NPCs are so detailed that trying to drop one in at random, does not work. Their profession or motivation doesn't match the scene. You can adjust the NPCs quickly by changing their details and story but at that point you're creating your own NPC. The catagoration of the chapters is weird and some NPCs don't fit the section they're in. Still a great book for prepping. It's well worth the money. Just wanted to make sure people know the downside.

I use this book all the time to draw inspiration for creating characters for my campaigns! And the random tables are also handy when I need something on the fly. Great for DM's whose PC's are always like "Hey what's this random guard's name and full backstory?"

Book is well made. The art on and in there is amazing. The time they put in to it definitely shows. Helps the games we play varry happy with it. Perfect for a gift for any gm.

Great! Comes with a tonnnn of very different, interesting NPCs, all very unique from one another, and also comes with 3 full adventure outlines (for “one shots” but could probably go on longer than that).