NPC Census

Lately I've been working on expanding the Shattered Realm setting, adding new NPCs and whatnot. This time around, I'm keeping track of everything in a spreadsheet rather than a simple text file. A spreadsheet allows me to sort and filter quickly, and because each row corresponds to a single entry, I always know how many NPCs (or locations or organizations, depending on the tab) exist in the game world. So far, Shattered Realm is up to 165 named characters, which is roughly 50 more than in the Torchlight setting. Not surprisingly, the largest number of NPCs in the Front Porch multiverse can be found in the Druid Cycle setting, where I estimate about 650 unique NPCs. Damn. That is a lot of NPCs!