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I had a DM once who named 1 character ever in our campaign. Anybody else we came across, if they needed a name, ended up with something really generic, like Bob or Sally off the top of his head. We had like 3 NPCs with the same name once.
He merely adopted the wing-it GM style. I was born in it, MOLDED by it! I didn't see players who stayed on the rails until I was already a man, and by that time it was befuddling!
Time to adopt the Pokemon (anime) naming convention. Every single police officer is Officer Jenny, and every single PokeCenter worker is Nurse Joy.
Can adopt that for all sorts of things in tabletop gaming.
"You roll into a new town and enter the tavern. Tavern Keeper Bob greets you with enthusiasm."
"As you enter the tavern in the great capital city of the east, Tavern Keeper Bob looks up from polishing a glass and gives you a dirty glare."
I thought of an even better use of this than free remapping:
After a couple campaigns when your players are no longer amused by this, randomly have an identical town but the tavern owner is Bill. Never acknowledge differences but every new location becomes different in a new way, starting mundane and progressing to eldritch to nonsensical. You can do a whole unraveling reality thing like Knights of Pen and Paper did.
Difficulty: you need to turn a gimmick of lazy writing into the pinnacle of master writing.
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Can adopt that for all sorts of things in tabletop gaming.
"You roll into a new town and enter the tavern. Tavern Keeper Bob greets you with enthusiasm."
"As you enter the tavern in the great capital city of the east, Tavern Keeper Bob looks up from polishing a glass and gives you a dirty glare."
Party goes the wrong way? No need to refiddle the script every town is the same town.
Adventures are oddly alphabetical when it comes to NPCs
-Tycho Brahe
I thought of an even better use of this than free remapping:
After a couple campaigns when your players are no longer amused by this, randomly have an identical town but the tavern owner is Bill. Never acknowledge differences but every new location becomes different in a new way, starting mundane and progressing to eldritch to nonsensical. You can do a whole unraveling reality thing like Knights of Pen and Paper did.
Difficulty: you need to turn a gimmick of lazy writing into the pinnacle of master writing.
So, https://youtu.be/Uwbqr2UjeSg?t=6
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