FreeNPC: An Interconnected World of Characters

[JohnnFour]

@Noah K I've promoted FreeNPC in today's newsletter. Your Stream is looking awesome!

DTRPG has stock art NPCs. Maybe there's a way to incorporate NPC images in your Stream now that CL support graphics. You'd need some cloud-based image hosting though.

@JochenL what do you think is the best way to host images for a public stream like Noah's? Does dropbox cap bandwidth?

 

[JochenL]

Good question. My German web providers do not cut bandwidth, so I am just using the various servers.

 

[ELF]

In addition to bandwidth, hotlinking is another potential issue.

In my small-scale testing http://www.freeimagehosting.net/ worked well, but there are of course no guarantees that any free service wouldn’t change its policies at whim.

Pinterest does work after initial trials and tribulations, but the stock art licenses may have some limitations for this kind of use.

 

[Noah K]

Thank you @JohnnFour !

I have been using imgbox for hosting the pictures of the summary cards, that might work.

 

[JohnnFour]

Congrats on the awesome milestone @Noah K!

I'm sending out an announcement in today's email and then share it out.

Great job.

 

[Noah K]

Thank you @JohnnFour!

 

[ELF]

You keep producing a constant stream of quality material, that's really impressive!

Have you considered publishing a collection when you reach a suitable spot with all the character interconnections? If you publish a source book in PDF form for example via DriveThruRPG, you could utilize the tags to create proper indexes that would make it easy to find suitable NPCs based on various factors, like affiliation, occupation and personality. That's something few similar products offer.

You could even include the Campaign Logger files in the package as an added bonus. That could work as a promotion tool both ways and I believe could be very useful for people who haven't yet taken the first step to organize their campaign like this.

 

[beerwithdragons]

Thanks so much for these and your continued contributions to the community. This is really outstanding work. I'm going to read through the new ones! Out of curiousity, do you have these in markdown format?

 

[Noah K]

You keep producing a constant stream of quality material, that's really impressive!

Have you considered publishing a collection when you reach a suitable spot with all the character interconnections? If you publish a source book in PDF form for example via DriveThruRPG, you could utilize the tags to create proper indexes that would make it easy to find suitable NPCs based on various factors, like affiliation, occupation and personality. That's something few similar products offer.

You could even include the Campaign Logger files in the package as an added bonus. That could work as a promotion tool both ways and I believe could be very useful for people who haven't yet taken the first step to organize their campaign like this.

I'd certainly like to do something like that in the future, time permitting.

 

[Noah K]

Thanks so much for these and your continued contributions to the community. This is really outstanding work. I'm going to read through the new ones! Out of curiousity, do you have these in markdown format?

Thank you so much! At the moment, I only have the profiles on the website, the ones in Campaign Logger, and the Campaign Logger JSON file.

 

[Noah K]

Updated 10/14/2018

• Added Ishki, Birdfolk Cartographer
• Updated the JSON file