Basement Whatever

What NPCs need isn’t more lore. It’s shape.

This is a tool I’m going to use to create NPCs who survive contact with play. It fits on an index card. It works for merchants, villains, allies, and authority figures. And it’s resilient under improvisation.
— Read on neillwhyborne.substack.com/p/the-7-sentence-npc

Info on writing durable, memorable basic characters.