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If there’s one thing that I’ve proven incapable of doing with tabletop gaming, it’s remembering the names of NPCs.
Not the ones related to this week’s adventure, mind you; those I remember just fine. But throw out a big signature NPC and I suddenly find myself completely blank. It’s bad enough that the only character I can think of off the top of my head is Caine from Vampire: the Masquerade, who mostly occupies a spot in my head for totally unrelated reasons. I can’t help but think that if some clever GM tried to insert a major storyline character into an adventure, I’d wind up being the guy in the party who asked someone breathtakingly important if I could borrow some money.
In the case of MMOs, I often have a bit more of an advantage. After all, Statesman and my character have a bit more interaction in City of Heroes than my characters in other games have with the setting-specific NPCs that I’d really like to be able to name off the top of my head. But even though I can remember who Thrall is, he suffers from the exact same problem as all the others — as long as I’m not playing him, he’s just plain not important.
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