Note that the various facts and traits are given in a sequence which allows the character to develop itself - with judicial help from the DM. In video game terms, the DM would be a team of developers. But video game design has spawned more techniques and terminology when it comes to creating NPCs. While the acronym NPC includes any in-game creature or humanoid not controlled by players, it typically only refers to helpful or neutral characters. Protestor : You're a Nazi! Me: I'm Jewish Protestor: You're a racist!
Me: Have you read anything I've written in the last 10 years? It's fairly clear I'm not a racist. Protestor: You're a misogynist! Me: Okay, that's it. Please produce some evidence of my supposed misogyny. Protestor: Uh I just heard it from someone Me: Ah, you're an NPC.
Better get that script fact-checked Wow that NPC is selling cheap swords! Non-Player Character. Coming across a beggar asking for food while standing next to a crate brimming with gold is kind of a bizarre experience, to be honest. For being private chronicles of their most intimate thoughts and feelings, NPCs don't seem to care much about who reads their diaries or, really, where they end up. A myriad of side quests have centered on the player seeking out journals or diary pages of certain individuals to better understand the games plot, which in and of itself isn't that odd.
It's when the search gets under way that things turn peculiar, as pages show up on roofs or in the hands of dead bodies, or highly incriminating recordings get stashed in flowerpots.
We're not just talking about writings by the dearly departed either, or people who had no means of keeping their annals contained: often enough the person who wrote the pages is alive and well, and doesn't seem all that concerned that their embarrassing secrets, criminal confessions or safe combinations are being picked over by complete strangers. Heck, at least one person is collecting these things--how is that not unsettling? Boasting the memories of goldfish, many NPCs who see the hero trespass in a restricted area, steal something, or brutally assault someone will completely forget about it if the assailant hides in a dark corner for a minute or two.
This behavior is particularly jarring when it comes from guards; while it might make sense for Cindy Civilian to look the other way, one would hope the watch would be more discerning. However, often enough they'll spy the hero and give chase, only to decide the danger has passed when their mark slinks away into the shadows, still armed and deadly.
Yeah, you're right, it was probably just rats. Apparently breaking and entering isn't a crime in most video games worlds, or NPCs are just really neighborly, because most of them are way too cool with random travelers wandering into their houses and taking anything of remote value. This behavior is most common amongst the cartoony background characters who inhabit the likes of Pokemon and The Legend of Zelda.
Despite the fact that the hero just strolled into a private residence with no warning or introduction--usually without speaking at all--the residents are more than happy to carry on a conversation with them as if this were totally normal.
It's not just one weird old lady or a pair of new age hippie types either--you can go through an entire town without finding a single person who will object to you trespassing in their home. Suddenly the intruder looks like the well-adjusted one here.
Speaking of inordinate trust for complete strangers, a lot of NPCs seem overly willing to foist quests on the hero before they even get a handshake in. Normally this could be chalked up to laziness lay-abouts, walking back and forth between the same two points all day if they had no personal stake in the success of the quest. However, often the favor the NPC asks for is personal, and they seem to think that you, oh nameless one, are the person for the job.
Games use this term to indicate that the character is being actively controlled by the computer, making decisions dynamically like a human player would. As noted, they're most common in games that are meant to be played with multiple people. If you don't have enough human players to fill all the spots, the game will let you play with CPUs instead. For example, take Chess, a game bundled with every Mac computer. In these games, you can play chess without a partner, in which case your opponent — the computer's programming — will be a CPU.
This opponent isn't a character of any sort; rather, it's an AI reading and reacting to your own moves. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
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