Discover practical tips for designing impactful NPCs in Dungeons & Dragons. Learn how to balance combat, add personality, and keep players engaged.

Creating NPCs in Dungeons & Dragons - whether they're planned or you have to improvise one - can be quite tricky. You have to ...

Courtesy of a Dungeons & Dragons subreddit, here’s an NPC character sheet for “The Nameless Goose.” The Nameless Goose is “a fiend that terrorized an entire village single-handedly. … ...

Spike. Our final character sheet is for the vampire that breaks all the rules; Spike aka William the Bloody (Awful Poet). Just like with Angel, Spike’s an adaptation of the Vampire Spawn NPC ...

What NPC means. NPC is an acronym that stands for "non-player character." A non-player character is a character in a game that's not controlled by the person playing the game, nor by any sort of AI.