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Originally Posted by trooper6
His original post was not a complaint that every time he asks for crunch he's gets a wing it answer. His original post was: I don't know why people think there is no point statting up things that aren't PCs--justify.
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Yes, and your answer to that, clear though it was, does not address that question. It addresses the question "I don't know why some people think it is ever acceptable not to stat up things that aren't NPCs—justify." That's a different question. It's like the difference between "not exclusively gay" and "exclusively straight."
In my case, for example, I certainly don't limit the NPCs who appear in a session to those for whom I have character sheets ready. But that doesn't mean I never prepare a character sheet for an NPC, or that I think there's no value in doing so. Back in Salle d'Armes, for example, I had character sheets for half a dozen people associated closely with the individual PCs, such as Launcelot for Guy; the three rival fencers; the two masters of the rival academies; three fashionable young women; the Spanish military attaché; and two of the street thugs who set on Guy and his companions. That's a large part of the NPCs you encountered. On the other hand, I didn't feel obliged to have a character sheet for every servant, street criminal, or aristo you ran into.
Like a lot of discussions, this one has polarized, into "Always have a full character sheet for everyone" and "Never have a character sheet for anyone but the PCs." But for a lot of us, somewhere in between is the right place.
Bill Stoddard