100 NPCs Who Are Lying to You

Every one of them is lying to you. A book of one hundred people your players will meet in taverns, markets, courts, temples and roadside ditches, and every single one is lying about something. Not always maliciously. Some lie out of shame, some out of love, some because the truth would get them killed. A liar is more useful to a GM than an honest citizen: a lie is a plot hook with a person wrapped around it. Each entry gives you four things: Who they appear to be: name and role, ready to drop into any scene The lie: what your players actually hear, often in the NPC’s own words The truth: the secret underneath, for your eyes only If discovered: what actually happens when the players work it out: an escalation, an offer, a complication, a session That last line is the engine. Any entry can carry a scene, a session or an arc, with no prep beyond reading four sentences. Organised by where the party is standing: Taverns & Inns · Merchants & Markets · The Watch & the Law · Temples & Cults · Nobles & Courtiers · The Underworld · Scholars, Wizards & Healers · The Road & the Wild · Ordinary Folk · The Strange Ones. Numbered 01–100, so you can roll d100 and take what comes. System-neutral. No stats, no rules text, no assumed setting. Works with any fantasy TTRPG: and most of the lies port straight into other genres. 13-page A4 PDF, cleanly typeset in two columns, print-friendly. Get a free taster: https://pulled-thread.itch.io/10-npcs-lying-to-you Vol. II: 100 Rumours and What's Actually True - gives you a hundred rumours describing what's actually true, and what happens when the party pulls the thread. https://pulled-thread.itch.io/100-rumours Vol. III: 100 Shops With Something Wrong With Them - gives you a hundred places to buy things, each with a flaw the proprietor is hiding, and what happens when the party asks. https://pulled-thread.itch.io/100-shops-wrong Vol. V: 100 Patrons and What They're Not Telling You - gives you a hundred quest-givers: the job as the party hears it, what the patron isn't saying, and what happens when they find out. https://pulled-thread.itch.io/100-patrons Vol. IV: 100 Corpses and How They Got That Way - gives you a hundred bodies: where each lies, how it got that way, and what happens when the party starts asking. https://pulled-thread.itch.io/100-corpses