As I noted a while back, I've been chipping away at my Druid Cycle matrix, a massive spreadsheet that tracks all characters, locations, organizations, etc. The character tab is by far the biggest component. As of this writing, I have 808 named characters for whom I've specified a location, any group affiliations, a 5e stat block, and lots of other relevant information.
Something was missing, though. I needed their motivations. So, for all 808 characters, I added a new field to specify their objectives. What do these people want? Now every character -- from the lowliest shopkeeper to the most powerful immortal -- has a goal. It's taken me weeks to get to this point, but at last I have hundreds of potential storylines just waiting to be explored!
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