NPC Baddies

**greowhiste** · April 24th, 2007, 19:07

Okay, I'm a DM and I would like to get feedback on how people use baddies in their game. I see there is a Personalities folder, and in that folder you can add a subfolder of bad guys, and that's how i was going to do it (just in case any of them wanted to talk or something). But i'm finding it not so nice of a system. Concerns i have:

1. You make a new Personality and name it what it actually is: Illithid 1. Well, when i click on the speech bubble, if the characters don't know what it is and I start speaking, well, they know what it is now. There is no "alias" for personalities that i think would be helpful ("slurping tentacle humanoid-looking creature).

2. When you put them into combat it isn't really an easy interface for creatures with lots of abilities and/or skills/feats. They get a sort of "Monster" entry with their BAB and their skills and things, but let's say you want to have an Illithid Monk 4/Sorc 5. All of those SA and SQ and spells and everything, I think i'd prefer a character sheet for that puppy. And I might use one, but then can the players load up the available characters and see all my baddies?

3. My solution for this of course is to do it the old fashioned way, having my P&P version of the baddy right here in front of me and just have a personality with his "alias" in the name field just so i can use him to talk. Further, if I DID fill out all his stats in the Personality sheet, you can't even really drag, say his attack into the chat window for quick access to his bonuses/saves/etc. You can't even really drop the dice+modifier into the spaces in his Personality sheet (like you can with the quickslot -- which btw i think is awesome). Sure I could load them into the quickslots, but then I could get confused if i had two or more baddies with class levels or templates or whatever.

I suppose I'd just like to hear how people deal with BBEGs, and even lesser so, just your minions or extraordinary creatures in FG.

Thanks!

**richvalle** · April 24th, 2007, 20:23

Howdy,

I used to add most my bad guys into FGI but then got lazy and just started to wing them. If I needed a bad guy to make an attack at +12 I just put +12 into the mod box and rolled. Ref save +5? Same...

I might change that with FG II (at least for a while) and see how it goes. It does take a lot of work to add them.

For your issues:

1: You can try to change the Entry before you click the speach bubble and it should change the ID. i.e. make it 'Tall dark stranger' and not Illithid 1 and then speak.

2: Yeah, I don't like how FG does spells for bad guys. For some a character sheet would be better. I think now characters are tied to login names. You should be able to create a log in for yourself (NPC maybe) and create characters and players won't be able to see them. Unless they login as NPC... nothing to stop them from doing that I think.

3: you CAN drag and drop the attacks and damage from the lines of the Personalites page and it rolls dice for you now. I've tried it... it works. I think the same for saves but not 100% sure about that .

BTW, we do all our game by voice (Skype or TS) so I don't need the speach bubbles.

rv

**Griogre** · April 24th, 2007, 20:39