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Apr 17, 2009 by Martin Ralya9

Emerging Complexity for GMs: It Rocks for NPCs

It took me some time to get used to the idea of emerging complexity for player character backgrounds and roleplaying elements (which I wrote about in its own article, Player Characters: Emerging Complexity is A-OK), but the concept is one I've always embraced as a GM. In this context, "emerging complexity" is the organic growth of a character from a sketch, or from little more than stats or the ...

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