[Rq-rules] Another thought on Character Catchup

[Tom Cantine]

While meditating on inspirations for my own campaign, another use for 
those downtime rules suddenly struck me, and a little embarrassingly 
since it now seems so obvious.

In my campaign, at least, there are a number of fairly important 
recurring NPCs. Some of them are tied to the plot in strong ways, while 
others may just show up from time to time, living their own separate 
adventurer careers. Since these are NPCs, their own adventures are not 
usually roleplayed out, but it IS useful for them to have their own 
history to relate when the PC's meet up with them again. Thus, having 
the character-catchup tables, like those in the old RQ Cities book, can 
be very useful in generating background detail as well.