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Dungeons & Dragons: Fantasy Personae: Sages, Spies and Informants

Fantasy Personae: Sages, Spies and Informants

Basically, this product is a collection of ten well-detailed NPCs who all deal in information in some manner. Interestingly, all the NPCs are truly fantastic, they all fit into a high fantasy world of magic and mystery - despite their interest in information they are not just common thriller-style spies translated into a fantasy setting. Yet even if your game is more low-fantasy, it will be possible to use them... albeit perhaps more sparingly.

Each NPC comes with a lot of detail. You might just need someone to pass on a bit of information, but in some ways that would be a waste of these NPCs - however a casual encounter might spark a long-term relationship with someone who might turn into a mentor, a friend, an employer or maybe someone who views the characters as a menace or threat.

For each one, there is a physical description for when the characters meet him. More interestingly, there is background information and rumours which can be discovered by astute characters who ask around before approaching him. There are also adventure ideas so that you can bring the NPC in as the focus of a scenario rather than just an adjunct to whatever else is going on.

The NPCs here are genuine characters in their own right, with histories and interests that obviously carry on even when the characters are nowhere around - always a good sign of well-developed NPCs. If your characters ever seek information from specialist sources, this book is well worth a look.

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Reviewed: 5 February 2006