Create Friends and Villains for your Therapy Campaign: NPC Building Workshop

Note: If you have dice please bring them for the activity!

Are you stuck with the same NPC (non-player character) tropes? Not sure if your own biases are influencing what goes into them? It can be hard to design characters that fit in the world of your TTRPG campaign, and keep your member’s therapy goals in mind. How much thought should you put into each NPC anyway? Learn the Heart of the Realm method of designing NPCs! In this interactive workshop, you'll walk away with three NPC options for your TTRPG therapy campaign.

Learning Objectives:

1. Examine how non-player character (NPC) building connects with member’s therapy goals.
2. Describe an effective method of considering the game counselor’s biases during NPC creation.
3. Describe the NANO method of creating NPCs.
4. Create three NPCs that will work with participant’s clinical setting.