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NPCs

Every NPC in RPBuddy has a personality, memory, social preferences, and relationships with other characters. They aren't scripted — they react to what you say, remember what happened, gossip with each other when they cross paths, and carry their experiences forward across days and conversations.

NPCs are the core of the game. The world's story emerges from how you interact with them, what they hear from each other, and what events unfold overnight.

In this section

• Talking to NPCs — starting a chat, multi-NPC scenes, how responses stream
• Personality and motivations — fields, goal/fear/secret, confidence, voice
• Memory — the four memory types, how recall works, private memories, pinning
• The Memory Web — the visual relationship graph, narrative threads, shared memories
• Disposition — the 0–100 scale, how it shifts, NPC-to-NPC relationships, gossip
• Daily routines — home, workplace, social locations, owner behavior
• Party members — recruiting, dismissing, behavior in scenes
• Backstory seeding — pre-existing relationships, starting disposition