Characters and NPCs

A name and a description are enough for the narrator to play someone. Everything else is optional and makes them act more like a person.

The tabs

Some tabs only appear when their system is on in Setup.

Tab	What it does
Description	Name, who they are, and GM notes: backstory and secrets the narrator knows and players never see. The narrator plays them from the description.
Details	Where they belong and move: faction, home location, wander chance, a patrol route, places they will never go, and how they behave in a fight. Starts hidden keeps them unseen at home until they're found.
Speech	Voice and how they talk: rhythm, favorite phrases, tics. Only with voices on. See Voices.
Personality	Sayings & habits the narrator is nudged to use, each with a chance, and memories: moments they already remember, shown only when a scene touches them. Write them from the character's own view; when characters share a room they pass memories on in their own words.
Stats	Attributes, abilities, starting bonds toward the player from hostile (-5) to devoted (+5), whether they can be drawn into off-screen fights, and protections.
Quests	Jobs they hand out. See Quests.
Vendor & Schedule	Makes them a shop (see Shops), and timed objectives: where they go and what they do at set hours.
Reactions	What they do when the world does something to them: bleed when wounded, curse whoever robs them. See Hooks.
Image	Portrait, generated from a prompt you can edit.
Test Chat	Talk to them now, before you publish.

Protections

What nothing in the game can do to someone, whoever asks: the narrator, a rule, or a player. Characters and creatures both have them, on the Stats tab.

Protection	Means
Immovable	Never leaves the spot. Can't join the party, be sent away, summoned, teleported, or flee a fight. A stationary mobility only stops them wandering on their own; this stops everything.
Invulnerable	Takes no damage from anything. They can still be attacked, and still fight back.
Essential	Can't die. A killing blow leaves them beaten, out of the fight and barely standing, and they recover like anyone else.
Immune to	Effects that never land on them: a golem that can't be poisoned, a lich that can't be stunned.

The player character

The same editor, pointed at the player, plus what players may choose at creation: stats, starting items, abilities. Setup decides how much choice they get.

Writing a good NPC

• Give them a want. A character with a goal makes scenes. One with only a description answers questions.
• Give them something they won't say. A secret or a lie is what makes a conversation worth having.
• Make the speech specific. "Speaks formally" is weak. "Answers every question with a question" is a person.
• Use the schedule. Being hard to find at the right time is a hook in itself.
• Test Chat every time. It's the fastest way to learn your "guarded" harbormaster reads as rude.