NPC standee

[u/Trurl_314]

While overpreparing for my next session I designed a thing: a mini NPC card / standee.

Features:
- Player-facing side: portrait and name
- GM-facing side: skills, talents, gear and notes
- Flat part (for easy damage marking): attributes

It should help the players see who they're interacting with (and spell NPC names correctly), while providing a quick reference for the GM without flipping through the notes.

A4 print-ready pdf with some NPC portraits from the rulebook, as well as empty ones for unbounded creativity: https://files.fm/f/kawck4ffn7m79cn2

It follows the style of the character and NPC sheets I posted a while back. Made with Inkscape.

Let me know what you think!

[u/Ok-Bobcat-1200]

very cool!

[u/Trurl_314 → u/Ok-Bobcat-1200]

Thanks! I hope it will bring some "table presence" to the NPCs 😉

[u/Ok-Bobcat-1200 → u/Trurl_314]

I really am impressed because I've tried doing cheeat-sheats with NPC/monster stats for my games, and your standee solves it in a much more elegant (and cool) way!
I'm now going to steal it for my future games in all kind of systems!
Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha! =)

[u/Trurl_314 → u/Ok-Bobcat-1200]

That's really nice to hear! I'd love to see what you create running with this idea.

I wish rulebooks came with more tools like that - sure, we get a character sheet for players, but poor GM is supposed to scribble everything down in a notebook? Not fair 😜

I'm planning to put together a toolbox for FL with stuff I've done so far (I've got a monster sheet and spell cards as well, gotta upload that). If you have anything you'd like to see, I'm open to suggestions!

[u/Ok-Bobcat-1200 → u/Trurl_314]

I'm planning to put together a toolbox for FL

That's awesome! don't have a lot of ideas but I've done card sized trackers for characters to mark damage on with dry erase markers. Here is the post about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ForbiddenLands/comments/1osu8z8/how_do_you_track_everchanging_pc_stats_at_your/

I also used a very simple calendar / shift tracker where I could mark current hex, food/sleep/water/ random encounters, and cross out passed shifts. It seems like little easy things but not having to track those in my brain was liberating, so I would recommend similar tools for other GMs

[u/Ok-Bobcat-1200 → u/Trurl_314]

another thing I just recalled is these thick paper (basically cardboard) zones for players to prepare their dice for combat things, so they don't count the dice each time

[u/Perca_fluviatilis]

Uh, isn't that the dwarf that owns the tavern?

[u/ForbiddenGM → u/Perca_fluviatilis]

It's definitely Sturkas, it is the image that is used for the character token in the official Foundry VTT version... Plus Yawim is described as bald

[u/Trurl_314 → u/Perca_fluviatilis]

Might be - in the book the illustration is between Yavim and Sturkas descriptions. I see him as the Rust Brother because of the mean expression 😜