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Lee Gold wrote:
> 
> Jonas Whitespore wrote:
> 
> > Quick suggestion.  I've always found that *most* NPCs need far less
> > detail than PCs.  Make a separate, NPC record sheet, with room for the
> > important stuff like basic stats and a few important skills.
> 
> It depends on the style of game.  If your game focuses on
> 
> > combat and brief interaction
> 
> then stats and a few skills are fine.  My campaign focuses on personal
> interaction.  I don't need stats.  I need name, group affiliations,
> important skills, past history, and personality notes.

The current edition of Multiclass only has one stat (and then Hitpoints,
which could be considered a second stat) :-)
  We seem to agree somewhat on how to describe NPC's.

> But my players have a habit of stealing my NPCs to turn them into
> PCs -- by speaking up for them and then reaching out a hand for
> the character sheet, so I've sometimes had to create stats on the fly.

I like to have very secret character sheets. Realism is added if
the other players don't know exactly what is on the sheets of
their comrades.
 
> Getting back to the original question:  I'd say no more than three lines
> to an inch for people who don't like to write small for sections that

ouch, that's 8.5 mm per line!! Usually it will just be a single word
("pickpocket" or "move silently").

> require words.  Numbers can be written on lines set as close as
> six lines to an inch.  And if you're checking off boxes (if the game has
> a long list of skills, and you check off which ones the character has),
> those can be closer yet.

The game does have a *very* long list of skills, around 175. So I'm
not going to make check boxes, as all of these skills has levels
(well, 95% of them, is a rough guess).

 
> --Lee Gold

Bad news, but thanks for the input :-)

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