If you're having difficulty breathing life into your characters, and you feel like the happy wandering salesman or the sad faerie queen don't give you enough, find an emotion wheel, and give those feelings some depth. It was easier for me to express the bartender's emotions to the players, and rather than him simply being angry for no reason, he was simmering and grumbling, but he only truly became angry when someone tried to take advantage of him. It gave me a lot more to play on, reasons for the anger, ideas for ways my players could provoke the anger, but also ways in which they could win the trust of the bartender. For example: Instead of simply an angry bartender, I now had a bitter and violated angry bartender. I checked out the wheel, and updated my existing NPCs. I was looking at a table of NPC emotions, and they were all very close to the center.

I first came across this during a counselling session a few months ago, and had it laying out while prepping for D&D. Here is an example of what one looks like. It often ends up looking like a color wheel, with broader base emotions at the center, and then more specific, nuanced emotions near the periphery. The DM Help Network /r/BehindTheTables /r/DMToolkit /r/DndMaps /r/DndAdventureWriter /r/DndRealms /r/DndMonsters /r/DndIdeas Or use the MultiredditĪn emotion wheel is a tool for building emotional language. AI-generated resources must be supplemental, not the main focus.ĮXPLORE THE WIKI ARCHIVES Message the Moderators Wait to post again until your most recent submission is out of the top-10.ĩ.

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