Didn’t get to use this prep for AW. Here are some named NPCs for a post-nuclear winter setting:
Eight-toes (bad frostbite, real bastard, thinks he’s clever, owns the penthouse)
Trope (doctor of sorts, likes ice wine “but I guess it’s all ice wine now! hyuck hyuck”)
Cannibal Jim (wild beard, angry, smells, and is good with electronics)
Fink (long black hair in a man-bun, angular features, MISFITS shirt, will lie about anything)
Shit-head (goofy-looking blond guy, scraggly hair, breathes through his mouth, red parka)
Dust (handsome, slight Spanish accent, elegant clothes, good with computers)
Parking (“tough old bat”, can get you almost anything, has never been seen eating)
Gen (platinum blonde, cute, Metallica shirt, good with people)
Fanta-Z (has the worst friends, loves innuendo, cuts all her coats to expose midriff)
Twice (i.e., to refer to his sexual inexperience, scrawny, bald, inferiority complex)
Trout (sniper/guard for the gang, tells horror stories, hates all children)
Sexy (a “plain jane” and hates it, would kill a kitten for a hot cup of coffee, one ear, will help anyone)
November (beautiful, short red hair, smokes, and has a lot of piercings)
I love your lists characteristics for them. Do you have a specific rule for creating those lists?
1) Worst nickname = name
2) some visuals
3) wants/does something odd
4) combat or social detail
5) scar or addiction or compulsion
These are great easy to see in my mind’s eye 🙂
Yeah, these are pretty evocative, without feeling cookie-cutter. Excellent share!
Would be cool to see a few independent AW groups use this list for their campaigns, and then compare each PC to their dopplegangers.
There are also some AW name generators out there; e.g., http://asifproductions.com/aw_npc_gen.html