"Whut can I do fer ya?!"
Sometimes he's a dwarf, sometimes he's a human, but he's definitely always bald, and always at least has a mustache (if not full beard). Depending on how much I want to move the players along, and how creative I'm feeling, he could also run the Inn, the Blacksmith shop, and the General Store. Basically, this guy can be found wherever things need to be purchased in a town. One-stop shop merchant for every lazy DM everywhere.
In my Undermountian game the bartender's name is Barleman Butterbean.
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My favorite NPC was Monkey.
ReplyDeleteI always felt that potions were too expensive in D&D, and there should be a lot of junior varsity "potions" that kinda/sorta work. They're in the holistic and herbal isle. So in the rolling hills south of the Neverwinter Woods, lived an old, super-crotchity man, named Monkey. He didn't actually sell potions, and his stock would sort of rotate between, snake oil, cough syrup, toe fungus removal paste and whatever approximation of requested potion he currently had the ingredients for.
The general idea was that his "potions" would barely work (or not work at all), do a tiny amount of damage, and be really cheap. His cough syrup was pretty awesome though. Super fun character to play. His favorite thing to call his customers was "Whippersnapper" and "Wise-acre".
When he wasn't home, one of the characters broke in and smashed up all of his bottles, and vandalized the whole place. He had to move to a less hostile location to sell his chigger lotion.
Monkey/creepy-Alchemist was a close second when I was thinking of my favorite NPC. But you just can't beat the ubiquity of the Scottish Bartender guy. Plus you can do a really bad scottish impression and it doesn't matter, because everyone already knows exactly who they're talking to so they aren't even really listening to the nuance of your tone, other than just waiting for him to say keywords like "missing daughter," "reward," or "rat problem."
ReplyDeleteIs that a pic from Army of Darkness?
ReplyDelete"And my bow!... And my hammer!..."
"You can count on my schteel!"
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