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I often look down on these codices because they’re a different kind of cash grab, a book of NPCs which is one of the easiest things to publish. It’s been done many times in many games over many years. Like\u00a076 Patrons<\/em> for Traveller but\u00a0Rogues Gallery<\/em> by TSR was more interesting due to the PCs of various employees being included.<\/span><\/p>\n NPC<\/em> turned out to be very helpful within 24 hours for me. Originally I bought it out of boredom and later versions (I’ll get to them) were impressive. I needed an NPC Druid to plague someone so I took one from here, made only a few modifications and boom, now the PCs have a nuisance opponent. If I were 30 years younger, I could’ve saved myself the money and do it all from scratch but this speeds it up even though the NPCs are based upon a model I don’t normally use (the stat array with an 8 and I think a 15, I prefer allocating points).<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to decking out all the core 11 classes from level 1 to 20, they included the NPC classes from 1 to 10; get some variety on Aristocrats and Warriors.<\/span><\/p>\n Worth buying but the PDF will do the trick for most GMs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I often look down on these codices because they’re a different kind of cash grab, a book of NPCs which is one of the easiest things to publish. It’s been done many times in many games over many years. Like\u00a076 … Continue reading