Central Casting (a.k.a NPC ideas)

[Wolf sword]

The "True Patriot"
He is the last true member of the rightful government what ever government that maybe. And he has the guys with guns to back it up.
Now you can use this guy as the local bad guys, heaven help your PC if they get captured by him. Especially if any of them are foreigners.
Or they can come to the rescue of your PC if things are going south.

[Schone23666]

Dr. Dave Dovack DDS
The good doctor is a dentist. "Have bad tooth will pull" He is traveling in the same convoy as the PC.
Twists
1) He is not a dentist, he just likes putting people through pain.
2) He is after the same thing as the PC, if he catches one of them well you did see that part of the movie "the marathon man" right

Is it safe

[Wolf sword]

Is it safe

yeah that was the seed for that NPC.

[Wolf sword]

The reverend.

The PC have come across the good reverend and his flock. Now this group has a odd take on thing, best way to describe it is, man had relied too much on technology, and god brought down his wrath to bring us back to the way that he intended for mankind to live.
So there calling is to destroy anyone and those items that is an affront to god.

Twists.
1) This is a splinter group from the main church, the reason for the split is the church is going too far or not far enough. Example the main church is ok with a 1900's era level of tech, but this splinter group is ok with a 1940's or the other way around, or pick your own tech levels.

2) The reverend is using technology to destroy technology when they reach their goal then they too will get rid of what they are using. (Or not)

[Wolf sword]

The Librarian.
Remember the old 'reading is fundamental' van well it is back.
This guy travels with the a merchant caravan as the local lending library.
Or he runs the town library.
Twists.
1) "For a bookworm you do know a lot about killing." He was not always one, before this he was a special forces solider and had enough of killing and destruction, now he wants to rebuild things.

2) The "good reverend and his flock of religious nut-jobs" are after the Librarian because she is teaching people the "wrong things"

[mikeo80]

Stan the Sentinal:

Location, Gettysburgh, PA

In a quiet museum, a lone figure sits in the gloom. He has his back to a display that has () one of the original copies of the Gettysburgh Address. The sentinal has decided that HE must guard one of the seminal writings in American History. He is dressed in Vietnam era camo, he has a Browning Semi-Auto 12 ga. shotgun. On his hip is a Colt 1911 .45. He has PLENTY of ammo for both weapons. Plus a really wicked looking Bowie Knife.

Stan has stockpiled a large amount of Vietnam era "C" rations, water, a sleeping bag, and various other camping articles. He has rigged the entrances with alarms. (Mostly very fine fishing line attached to tin cans with rocks, bells and other noise producing items.)

Stan feels that he is performing "A Sacred Duty". There is no telling how to "talk him down".

Twists:

1) That is REALLY one of the five known copies of the Gettysburgh Address!!!

2) Stan was a GB that was ordered to collect the G.A. and bring it to the Presidential Retreat in Maryland. The chaos of TDM unhinged his mind so that he imagines his orders are to protect vs. retrieve.

[Rainbow Six]

2) Stan was a GB that was ordered to collect the G.A. and bring it to the Presidential Retreat in Maryland. The chaos of TDM unhinged his mind so that he imagines his orders are to protect vs. retrieve.

Sorry, maybe missing something here, but what's a GB in this context

[mikeo80]

Sorry, maybe missing something here, but what's a GB in this context

Sorry, I should have used proper nomenclature. "GB" is American slang for Green Beret. One of the US special forces that specialize in local counter-terrorism.

My $0.02

Mike

[Rainbow Six]

Thanks, I'm familiar with Green Berets, had just never heard the term 'GB' used to refer to them.

Cheers

[rcaf_777]

Buying Bread

You meet a man from Brussels, He is six-foot-four and full of muscles

You say, "Do you speak-a my language

He justs smiled and gives you vegemite sandwich

Ring Any Bells

Can you finish this off

[simonmark6]

Does he come from a land down under

[Targan]

Can you finish this off

No, I don't want to "finish off" a 6'4" muscular dude from Brussells. Not unless there's a a lot of beer involved, and hopefully some cash

[bobcat]

No, I don't want to "finish off" a 6'4" muscular dude from Brussells. Not unless there's a a lot of beer involved, and hopefully some cash

if there's a lot of beer and some cash involved you'll likely get a bit butthurt in the process.

here's one i like to use.
theres a woman going around the local villages who always has something to trade that is in critically low supply wherever at whatever village she stops at.

a) she's sitting on a large supply cache left built and forgotten about during the cold war
b) she's been stealing supplies from the villages at night and then openly comeing in the next day with supplies.

[Schone23666]

You meet a man from Brussels, He is six-foot-four and full of muscles

You say, "Do you speak-a my language

He justs smiled and gives you vegemite sandwich

Ring Any Bells

Can you finish this off

From where the beer does flow and the men chunder

Uh oh, can you hear the thunder (from the mushroom clouds on the horizon) You better take cover!!


On a side note....vegemite, gah!

[Schone23666]

if there's a lot of beer and some cash involved you'll likely get a bit butthurt in the process.

here's one i like to use.
theres a woman going around the local villages who always has something to trade that is in critically low supply wherever at whatever village she stops at.

a) she's sitting on a large supply cache left built and forgotten about during the cold war
b) she's been stealing supplies from the villages at night and then openly comeing in the next day with supplies.

Perhaps that "large supply cache" could in fact be similar to the one found in the module Allegheny Uprising