What are you thoughts about connecting or even overlapping the NPCs from the PCs’ backstory questions?
It could be interesting to have a Legacy or Protégé who want to uphold an NPC’s tradition while also having a descendant of that NPC who does their own thing but still has the NPC involved in their backstory.
Do you think that might overshadow the other PCs a bit?
Well, the section on hooks seem to recommend the NPCs have different relationships with different PCs. So it seems workable or even desirable.
AD Kohler I guess I wasn’t thinking about that for essential NPCs like a Protégé’s mentor, but that’s probably just my bias.
I always do this. It’s too hard to remember the NPCs otherwise. @_@;;
Connecting and Overlapping your NPCs is almost essential. Build a web of relationships.
The only downside is you’ll end up with fewer NPCs to populate your stories with. But you can always ask more questions and make more NPCs.
It also is a lot of fun to weave the NPC’s together, so the Protege’s Mentor has locked up some of the Reformed’s Friends in Low Places before. Just like any network, NPCs that are linked to multiple PCs are likely to show up more in the game and be important, while others remain just a name on the character sheet unless the MC drags them into the light (or has them kidnapped or whatever).