When running campaign encounters, especially in a
town or city environment, count on players to surprise
you by seeking out encounters with walk-on NPCs you
haven’t detailed.
Whether their characters want to speak
to merchants, burghers, servants, or criminals, this
list of instant personalities and agendas is perfect for
surprise NPCs.
Don’t bother to create an interesting character for every
single encounter.
Many scenes are best left short and sweet,
allowing you to move on to an entertaining scene that
relates to the main adventure.
Every so often, you should
throw in a memorable character whose agenda has nothing
to do with the main plot.
This creates the illusion that your
world is a living, complex place, not a mere backdrop for
the adventurers’ activities.
Often, players remember these
improvised characters and come back to them, weaving
them into the ongoing story of your campaign.
Sure, I can offer what I’ve got! I’m gonna try and separate this answer into a few sections, but here’s the image folder I have for all of my clone refs to start with-
I update this every now and then when needed, and I’ll be using images from there for this answer! There are many more named clones and image refs out there on the internet, don’t be afraid to google something if you need help!
Faces:
Clone’s (obviously) all have the same basic face shape (save for the Bad Batch, but I’m not gonna get into them for this).
They all have warm brown skin and wide/prominent noses. You can look up the live action actor for Jango (Temuera Morrison) for more IRL face references too if you need to. Hair customization, tattoos, facial hair and scarring can do A LOT to distinguish clones from each other. Hair can be dyed and cut however, so long as it fits in a helmet (like with Tup, he has long hair tied up into a tight bun.) Eyebrows are also customizable. Pluck them into a different shape, shave them off, dye them, have fun with it!
Armor:
Clone armor has a lot of room for customization as well. Clones can paint whatever they’d like on them, but if their squad/battalion or whatever has a specific color scheme then they’ll mostly stick with those colors
Looking up different kinds of clone armor for different situations/ranks is helpful too! This video does a breakdown of every type of clone trooper rank/type:
Clones are all given numbers at birth. To distinguish each other, they all give each other more unique names as they grow up. They can be named for a personality habit, a distinct moment from their training / any point in their life, or they can have normal sounding names like Gregor. It’s all preference, but some clones are stuck with a name that came from a reputation regardless of if they like it or not.
Here’s image compilations of some Clone Commanders/Captains/ARC troopers and more for examples:
Personality:
Clones are all unique individuals. They have varying personalities, likes/dislikes, habits, etc. Consider their backstory and experiences in training/on the field to help shape them, be sure to do your best to give your clones aspects of their personalities that make them feel like real and believable people!
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There’s plenty more you can do for making your clones, but this post is just a rundown of the basics. I hope any of what I said here was helpful to you, and have fun making your clones!
Well, first I’ll start off with repeating something i mentioned on a different ask a while ago-
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I have a personal HC for hybrids tho, other people don’t have to follow it of course it’s just my process- I only think a hybrid between two separate species are possible if they’re both the same classification. Like 2 different species that are both mammals can make a hybrid, but an amphibian and a mammal couldn’t. I only go with this because the thought of anatomical struggle for hybrid offspring of 2 different classifications hurts me lol- like, would a nautolan and a human hybrid only be able to ~kind of~ breathe underwater, or what? ANYWAY there’s my HC”
so that’s where i limit myself on hybrid possibilities. Beyond that, it’s just a matter of combining species features however you can.
With my character Citro, he’s a twi’lek/zabrak hybrid. Since those species are both already very human like, I didn’t have much to add. He’s a very simple hybrid, pretty much just a twi’lek with horns
But the swirls on his skin are due to him being a hybrid as well. Both of his parents had yellow/orange-ish skin tones, and were mixed unevenly on Citro’s own skin
Koro was a much more complicated hybrid, it took a lot more thought on how to combine such different features. Here’s the sketches I did to figure it Pantoran/Lasat-
Koro’s final ref was after a bit of trial and error, she definitely has more Lasat coming through in her design than Pantoran, but still different enough
since canon has barely touched on hybrids, it’s a very open field. We don’t know the true requirements/limitations or if there really are any, so it’s all up to you on how you want to go about it!
Hi I’m Marko and I’m making a game called Cloudpunk about a courier in a huge cyberpunk city full of interesting characters where everything is made of voxels.
Good Lord, how delicious! I wanna do that! The next time I’m in a cathedral, I’m doing it.
As she stood inside an ancient and empty church in Montefrío, Spain, Malinda Kathleen Reese belted out one of the best Christmas carols of all time-“O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and the end result was just heavenly.
I’m obsessed with this because A. Victorian Christmas Carols B. European Cathedrals C. It’s gorgeous and fuckin choristers are my favorite
-the jedi council tells me i can’t go to war against the mandalorians. i punch the floor so hard their lightsabers activate
-“this whole thing smacks of vrook” i scream as i overturn the table and turn the jedi council into the council of shit
-if the jedi council exiles me from the order for fighting against the mandalorians i will face god and walk backwards into hell
-another day training at the jedi academy on dantooine. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the lightsabers. buddy they won’t even let me fuck them
-MALAK: your problem is, that youre perfect, and everyone is jealous of your good ideas, and that makes you rightfully upset REVAN: I agree
-(in perfect beeping droid voice) bleep bloop even i cant figure out revan’s damn battle plan and im a sith
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You drink a bottle of Tarisian ale. The next day
there is an identical bottle there, but it is full. You remember that Taris was
destroyed. There is no longer a supplier of Tarisian ale.
·
The food is never good. It may be sentient. You
eat it anyway.
·
There is rattling in the storage room. You think
it’s one of the droids, but then you realize droids don’t sound like a young
child speaking a language you don’t understand.
·
There is singing coming from the fresher. The
only person you can’t find on the ship is Bastila. Bastila doesn’t sing.
·
Some nights you wake up to the sound of
screaming. The screaming is your own. You don’t know why you are screaming.
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On those nights, Bastila wakes up screaming too.
·
Sometimes you can’t remember your dead fiance’s
face. It is like he never existed. Other memories are foggy, too. You can’t
quite remember things before the Endar Spire. It takes you a minute to remember
your own name sometimes. Must be the food. You ignore it.
·
“You are the most promising student in memory,”
they say. You do not know why they didn’t find you before. You blink, and swing
your lightsabers. The weight is familiar. You close your eyes and the Force is
there. It has always been there. Waiting. You do not know how you forgot it.
·
Kashyyyk is familiar, but you know you’ve never
been there. You hear a screech. “Tach”, you whisper. You don’t know how you
knew the creature’s name. It is as though you have always known its name.
·
There is a hermit living in the trees. He is
kind, speaks as though he’s known you for years, decides to come along on your
journey. You didn’t ask. You didn’t have to ask. You didn’t have to ask any of
them. They just came.
·
You have never gotten lost on your journey, not
even once. Your feet know where to go. You can turn your brain off and watch
them move, taking you where you need to go. Sometimes you walk the paths in
your dreams. You do not know how, or why. You have never been to any of these
places.
·
You know this ship. It is evil, but familiar.
Karath smiles knowingly at you. He is familiar. Everything is familiar. Escape
is easy. You know the way.
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Four words and everything makes sense. The same
four words destroy everything.
Hooooly shit this is so intense and well-written. Thanks so much for writing!
I like the movie explanation for why there’re so many Spider-people across the multiverse much better than the comic explanation.
The explanation in the comics is that the Spider-people are the totems of an ancient Spider-god called the weaver who weaves a web of destiny through the multiverse and inserts a Spider-hero where one is necessary.
Not only is that explanation complicated and esoteric, but it also strips the agency of the heroes from them. Peter, Miles, and Gwen didn’t choose to become a hero. They were chosen by some god to fulfill a heroic purpose.
The movie explanation is much more thematic and fitting. It ties back to something Stan Lee said in the 60s. That because Spider-Man is covered from head to toe and you can’t see his face, he could really be anyone under the suit. It just so happens that Peter Parker is the one who took the mantle upon himself.
And the movie goes further by saying that if Spider-Man could’ve been anyone, what if more than one person actually became Spider-Man?
Batman is the identity of Bruce Wayne. And if anybody else became Batman, it wouldn’t be Batman. But anyone could be Spider-Man. And every Spider-person is equally as Spider-Man as Peter is.
And that’s what the movie makers went with and built the entire film around. If anyone can become Spider-Man, then even a neurotic, self-conscious kid with a bit of a badboy side like Miles can become Spider-Man.
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