NPC Quirks

Quirks are handy to make your NPC’s more memorable and believable. Here are 20 to get you started

1. is stooped and moves slowly due to a bad back
2. paranoid with extremely wide eyes
3. likes to play games
4. gets angered by strange things
5. blows their nose into their hand and then shakes it clean
6. has trouble hearing
7. shakes fist in the air often
8. interrupts themselves
9. is extroverted to the point of embarrassing their companions
10. talks too loudly
11. attracts birds that may land or sit on them when outside
12. gets angered by strange things
13. always plugs their favorite politician (or guild, royal family-member, etc.)
14. close talker
15. forgets what they are saying
16. vegetarian
17. looks boldly at people, with tight lips and narrowed eyes
18. wears a ring on every finger
19. boasts about their sexual exploits (real or imagined)
20. buck teeth

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