A friend of mine likes to run homebrew games over published adventures, but starts to have trouble once we get past low levels.
It's difficult for him to create a group of mid to high level NPCs for city encounters and such. We were talking and he said something about how he wishes he had a book with a variety of NPCs with class levels that were built to be decently optimized.
I'm about 100% sure that 3PPs have published books like this, but I don't know where to look, can ya'll help me out?
Looking for books that have at least one of the following bullet points
-A variety of NPCs with class levels, something similar to the NPC codex.
-Premade encounters that can be dropped into many situations
-A method of quickly generating NPCs
-Something I didn't list here, but sounds like it would help my friend.
Huzzah. The NPC Collection is what he needs. 350 NPCs on the cheap.
There are tons of premade encounter books out there. I'd recommend grabbing one from Raging Swan Press.
The NPCs are a bit fantastic, but each one is across three CRs, they have story seeds, and they've got jobs within the town with some relationships between many of the characters.
-Ben.
There's also Streets of Zobeck which has a number of shady locations, NPCs, items, feats, traits. It does have some adventures, but it sounds like your GM doesn't need that.
-Ben.
Since my friend would be planning to use all these in a freeport campaign the NPC Collection, some of Raging Swans encounter books, and Faces of the Tarnished Souk would be the most likely to help him. I'm gonna make sure he knows about them!
Thank you guys so much for pointing me in a direction :)
The NPCs in Faces of the Tarnished Souk are great as well.
Rite Publishing also has Not So Random Encounters line of products.
+1 for Raging Swan and Rite NPC and or encounter books books.
Purple Duck Games also has a product line on Random Encounters.
Wow! An entire adventure got added to the bundle of holding! Go go Journeys to the West.
Wow! An entire adventure got added to the bundle of holding! Go go Journeys to the West.
Journeys to the West is actually a set of adventures and some pirate-setting toolkit. It has five adventures, a pile of NPCs, some locales, items, spells, and a bit of miscellany.
I'd say that makes it an even better deal, but that's me. :)
-Ben.
Wow! An entire adventure got added to the bundle of holding! Go go Journeys to the West.Journeys to the West is actually a set of adventures and some pirate-setting toolkit. It has five adventures, a pile of NPCs, some locales, items, spells, and a bit of miscellany.
I'd say that makes it an even better deal, but that's me. :)
-Ben.
My bad, but I can't say I am unhappy about being wrong. These books look like quite the joy. And sound quite filled with the encounters Insain might want.