LET’S TALK!

STAND-ALONE NPC DIALOGE SYSTEM FOR SOLO ROLEPLAYING

Pan’ya-chan approves!

BY DR. GERALD RAVENPIE

2024
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
GETTING STARTED ........................................... 3
WHEN TO USE ................................................ 3
WHAT YOU NEED ........................................... 3
THE SYSTEM ........................................................ 4
GREETINGS..................................................... 4
TONES & REACTIONS ..................................... 4
EXCHANGES ................................................... 6
AFTERMATH ................................................... 6
ADVANCED MOODS ........................................... 9
READING THE ROOM .................................... 9
ASSIGNING MOODS ...................................... 9
MECHANICAL EFFECTS ................................ 10
CHOUCROUTE FUN TAG! - A FULL
DIALOGUE EXAMPLE ..................................... 13
THE STORY SO FAR… ................................... 13
GREETINGS .................................................. 13
FIRST EXCHANGE......................................... 13

OPTIONAL RULES .............................................. 7 SECOND EXCHANGE .................................... 14

PERSUADING.................................................. 7 INTERLUDE .................................................. 14

LYING ............................................................. 7 THIRD EXCHANGE ....................................... 14

THREE-SIDED DIALOGUES .............................. 7 AFTERMATH ................................................ 15

WILDCARD TONE ........................................... 7

ERR…HMM… TONE ........................................ 8
PARTY DIALOGUES ......................................... 8
HARDCORE MODE ......................................... 8

Version 0.04
By Dr. Gerald Ravenpie, 2024
First, the usual comment: do whatever you want with the text in this document, except making money or doing
something illegal or immoral. By the way, that ‘illegal or immoral’ clause is just a tongue-in-cheek comment (based
on a 90’s Spanish song) that probably has run its course already. So do not take it too seriously!
And second, I want to thank Martin Proctor, whose comments (and encouraging words!) inspired me to update this
document, and the reddit users u/gufted, whose application of these rules inspired me to introduce the ‘hardcore
mode’ as an official rule! (^ __ ^)
GETTING STARTED
LET’S TALK! is a stand-alone dialogue system for
solo roleplaying, designed to be used with any other
RPG ruleset. This system is inspired by classic tree-
dialogues in videogames; to be precise, by those
videogames where dialogue options are represented
by a single word, short phrase, or even an icon.
Luckily, this won’t be one of those games where the
writers pus words in the mouth of your character that
you never, ever, would use, or even worse, mislead
you…because in this case you are be the one who
selects and gives a meaning to those words!
WHEN TO USE
The Dialogue rules in this add-on are designed to give
you inspiration when doing a conversation with an
NPC. They don’t tell you what they say, but how they
do it as a reaction of whatever you have said to them,
what they think about you, and how they’re feeling at
that time.
Nevertheless, this rules stop being useful when
they get in the way instead of helping, and those times
you just should ignore them. For example, you don’t
need stop to roll to stablish the topic of a dialogue or
the mood of an NPC when you are continuing a
previous (and recent) conversation where all those
aspects were already stablished. Nor you should use
these rules with every single NPC you meet, if that
NPC has no relevancy to the plot nor has anything
interesting to say. Going back to the videogame
metaphor, if you meet an NPC whose only line is “I’m
starting to take lessons at piano” (potentially
changing to “I’ve progressed a lot at playing the
piano” if you visit the same place later), then the full
Dialogue rules aren’t required.
Finally, when an NPC is a member of your party,
you don’t have to start a Dialogue every time you
want that NPC to say something, nor when you want
to answer a question or petition. One of the funny
parts of having people travelling with you is hearing
their idle chat (with you, or among themselves), even
if there are times they may get up on your nerves! So
just keep this Dialogue mechanics for the relevant
moments; also, feel free to use just part of those
mechanics here and there as an inspiration source
(e.g., using it as a substitute for the classical ‘reaction
roll’ if the system you’re using lacks one).
WHAT YOU NEED
You need two 10-side dice, but using only one also
works: the only time you need to roll two dice is to
select the column and the row of one certain table, so
you can do that step-by-step. Also, you need the tone
cards included at the end of this document to build a
Tone Deck at the beginning of each Dialogue. Finally,
you need a way to stablish how your relationship
with an NPC is. If this concept is treated just
narratively in your used RPG, just assign one attitude
level by following the guidelines in that game (or just
your gusts if there’re no guidelines). If it’s based on
some game trait, you should choose the attitude the
better fit the original tag, descriptor, level, or
whatever, from the original system.
A BIT OF BACKGROUND
This Dialogue system is a stand-alone version of the
one found in the VISORPG (available in
https://ucmeumm.blogspot.com/p/visorpg-
videogame-ish-solo-roleplaying.html) It was an
already quite ‘stand-alone’-ish system to begin with,
but it still included some mentions to other
mechanics that have been omitted here.
Nevertheless, at the time this version of LET’S TALK!
hit the press (that’s metaphorical!), it had included
refinements and additions to its original source.
If you came from a previous version of this document,
the main changes have been a) an expansion of the
Advanced Moods optional rules, b) a bit more
detailed in the description of the tones and reactions,
and c) a full-fledged Dialogue example. Also, the
results for the Reaction Roll table have been
reversed to better make ‘rolling high’ corresponds to
‘better results’, and they now use the ‘worded’
answers instead that a number you must translate to
the former.
GETTING SOCIAL!
This Add-on only covers one aspect of social
relationships (or ‘the social pillar’, as cool kids call it
nowadays), namely ‘talking with people’. Now, you
may be interested in other aspects, as making friends
(or losing them!), romancing, dealing with Factions,
etc. Well, good news, there’s another stand-alone
add-on which does just that, KEEPING CONTACT!,
which even includes a compatibility patch to use it
along LET’S TALK! You can find it in this page, close
to the one you may have found this Add-on:
https://ucmeumm.blogspot.com/2022/12/keeping-
contact-standalone-social.html
THE SYSTEM
To summarize this system in a nutshell, a Dialogue
with an NPC has the following stages:
 Greetings. Where the initial attitude of the NPC
(both regarding you and their general mood) and
the reasons behind that Dialogue are stablished.
 Exchanges. Where you resolve the talky part, by
selecting specific Tones and getting Reactions
based on those tones, how friendly the NPC is to
begin with, and a bit of randomness.
 Aftermath. Where you decide if the Dialogue has
some effect in your relationship with that NPC, if
things got so ugly that you now must fight, and
any other further consequence.
GREETINGS
NPCs are polite enough to greet you, even if that
politeness may take the form of just a ‘Hey, listen!’,
‘You, N’wah!’ or ‘Grah, interloper!’. You should do the
same when you’re the one who starts a Dialogue, so
its first step is this Greetings part where you
establish a) what’s the NPC initial Attitude, b) the
dialogue’s Topic, and c) the NPC’s Mood. The starting
ones, at least, as they could change before the end.
ATTITUDE
Even before it begins, a Dialogue looks quite
different if the NPC you’re talking to already has a
metaphorical (or literal!) knife-between-teeth when
seeing you, or if that NPC is your BFF. Thus, before
anything else, you must stablish the Attitude of that
NPC from one of the following: Very unfriendly,
Unfriendly, Neutral, Friendly, Very Friendly. You can
use your previous story with that NPC if you’ve
already met, or just use the most fitting for the
current situation in the case of a complete stranger.
Note that the Attitude ‘I hate, despise or fear you so
much that I don’t want to talk to you, ever’ may also be
on the table…but, in this case, you can’t expect a
proper Dialogue with that NPC: they will probably
attack you, insult you, blatantly ignore you, or flee
before you can even say, ‘Hi!’.
TOPIC
Once it’s been stablished that the NPC at least
wants to talk with you, the question is…about what?
If you are the one approaching the NPC, you just
decide the Topic, even if it’s something as simple as
just wanting to say ‘Hi!’. On the other hand, if the NPC
is approaching you for a little talk, make a d10 roll to
decide why, checking the result in the Topic Roll
Table. Remember that if the circumstances already
point in one direction (e.g., a guard that finds you in a
restricted area isn’t looking for some idle-chat), you
don’t need to make that roll: reserve it for those times
you have nothing in mind yet.
MOOD
Regardless of who is approaching who, you use
the Mood Roll Table to know the initial Mood of that
NPC: roll 1d10 to select the row and another one for
the column. This affects how that NPC greets you, but
also serves as a guide for how the rest of the dialogue
would go. Also, this result can give you some clues
about the nature of those news, reminders, petitions,
demands or opportunities they bring with them.
In case of strangers, you can use the result to
summarize their full personalities, instead of just how
they’re feeling at that moment. As an alternative, if
you already know the personality of an NPC, you may
just randomly select how is that NPC feeling at that
specific moment based on this. E.g., if you know that
one NPC is a bit coward but also quite arrogant, you
could randomly select which of these two aspects
dominates at any given time (for example selecting
between the Arrogant and Scared moods).
Note that the columns in this table are notably
biased, being the leftmost the most negative in
nature, and the rightmost the most positive. You may
consider this to select the column instead of rolling it,
if you expect that the mood of a specific NPC should
tend towards the positive/negative/neutral side.
BEYOND THE BASICS
The guidelines about moods in this section are at
their most basic level, being 100% based on narrative
effects. A further section in this document expands
these rules, including specific mechanical effects for
each mood and discussing ways to assign them.
TONES & REACTIONS
There are eleven common tones plus two optional
ones, each one (with one exception) with a card
associated to it. In this section, you can find the
meaning of each tone…but, as it will be seen, there’s
plenty of room for interpretation in most cases.
The first nine tones are the default ones you
always include in the Tone Deck. Note that there’s no
‘neutral’ tone among them: each time you must select
a tone should symbolize a potential turning point in
the Dialogue, where each option would have
consequences. Thus, any filler & padding lines of text
would be inserted between these relevant moments,
for as long as you desire.
 Aggressive. You speak in a demanding or The following two tones have special rules
threatening way, or in a violent way if you regarding their availability. You only include them in
really dislike the NPC. There’s not much room the Tone Deck if the NPC you are talking to pass their
for compromise here: this is the worst tone you could respective requisites, and if you want to include them
you use with anyone! to begin with. Each of these tones, regardless the
reaction, can’t be used again with the same NPC for a
Charming. You try to look cool or talk about time, so you wouldn’t include that specific card in the
something you find cool. Or maybe you try to Tone Deck again for that NPC until then.
flatter the NPC. This tone can’t be used with
someone you don’t get along at all (i.e., someone with Flirting. You show attraction to the NPC or
a Very unfriendly Attitude). try to attract them. Mostly for amusement,
rather than with serious intentions...but who
Friendly. You talk about something knows? You can only include this tone in the deck
heartwarming, offer your help to the NPC, when talking with an NPC with an Attitude
etc. When talking to someone you don’t get ‘Unfriendly’ or better.
along too much, it can represent an olive branch.
Romantic: You try to have a special moment
When talking with someone you don’t get along at all,
with your partner; the details are left to
this’s not even possible: that olive branch should be
yourself. You can only include this tone in the
based in actions instead of words, or, at least, be
deck when you’re talking with an NPC you have a
preceded by them (i.e., you must do something to
romance, something that should have been
make that Attitude at least ‘Unfriendly’).
established during the game or being a part of the
character’s background.
Humorous. You talk about something funny,
tell a joke, or use a light tone. This tone
assumes you try to laugh with someone, not
Finally, the next two tones are only used with
at someone; if you get along with the NPC, on the
some of the options described in the following
other hand, it can include also friendly (and, usually,
sections. Note that the first one doesn’t have an
mutual) jeers.
associated card, because that’s the point of that tone.
Questioning. You talk about something you
Err…hmm. You found yourself with nothing
find strange or curious about, ask for
to say, because you can’t use any of the three
information or an opinion, or express doubts
tone cards you draw. Expect looking a bit
about a topic.
silly for a moment.
Rude: You talk about something unpleasant,
Wildcard. This tone is equivalent to another
in a sarcastic or dismissive tone, etc. Unlike
one. This will make that tone more likely to
with the Aggressive tone, this rudeness
appear during the Dialogue and may even
doesn’t need to be pointed to the NPC, especially in
force you to use it in certain circumstances.
the case of a friend: you can use it to express anger
about something in a not-so-subtle way. An equally
Regarding the NPCs, there are sixteen possible
rude answer by the NPC, thus, could be interpreted as
different reactions, being as versatile as tones, and
agreeing with you in some cases; it still counts as an
which also depend on the context: a good friend may
unpleasant exchange…unless you both really needed
react to a joke with a loud laugh, while an enemy may
to vent for a while!
just limit to an ‘okay, that was funny’ comment. Or vice
versa, depending on their personalities!
Sad. You talk about something sad, or
express condolences to the NPC. It can also
Disagreement. The NPC objects your words
express melancholy, regret, etc.
or actions, but not vehemently. Depending
on the NPC Attitude and Mood, this can take
Surprised. You talk about something you
the form of a blunt ‘no’, sarcasm / irony, or a polite
find surprising, baffling, strange, etc. You can
“let’s agree to disagree”.
also use this tone when you want to mystify
the NPC…or when you have been quite mystified
Flirting. The NPC is receptive, and flirts with
yourself.
you in turn! Once again, nothing serious…or
is it?
Worried: You talk about something that
worries or even scare you. You can also use
Furious: The NPC is really pissed off. The
this tone to express concerns about the NPC
Dialogue immediately ends…badly. This is
situation, or to give a warning.
the worst possible outcome, so don’t expect anything
good coming from it.
Happy. The NPC likes a lot what you are
saying, sharing their good feelings.
Helpful. The NPC offers (or accepts) to help
you, by answering your questions, giving
advice, soothing your worries, etc.
Hostile: The NPC is now angry. Best case, the
NPC is angry to the same thing that angered
you the first time. But chances are, the NPC is
angry with you, even if still willing to talk.
Malevolent. The NPC feels pleased… at your
expense; expect plenty of schadenfreude,
with the schaden pointing in your direction!
Neutral: The NPC feels unimpressed,
indifferent, too baffled to give a proper
answer, or tries to temporize. It can also be a
mixed-bag, alternating between different two
different reactions and balancing each other.
Questioning. The NPC wants to know more
about what you’re saying, feel curious, have
some doubts that wants to clear up, etc.
Reject. Uh, uh…wrong moment or, in some
cases, wrong person. The NPC isn’t receptive
to your flirting or romantic words.
Romantic: Your partner is also looking for a
special moment. Again, the details are left to
yourself.
Rude: The NPC doesn’t give a damn about
what you’re saying, don’t like it, or (best
case) shares your anger when your rudeness
was pointing out elsewhere.
Sad. The NPC feels sad (or disappointed) for
your words or behavior, express
condolences, etc.
Satisfaction: The NPC likes what you are
saying or doing or, at least, politely agrees
with you.
Surprised: The NPC feels surprised by your
words or shares your surprise.
Worried. The NPC feels perturbed, worried,
scared, or uneasy by your words or the way
you’re acting during the Dialogue.
EXCHANGES
Dialogues are solved by doing three Exchanges, tops.
That should be enough to carry our any dialogue, as
each one goes beyond a simple ‘A says, B says’: it can
be (and usually is) a longer ‘A says, B says, A says, B
says…’, until you decide to jump to the next exchange.
But don’t cheat: the full exchange must reflect the
tone you selected and the reaction you got, so don’t
change its nature out of nowhere!
A) First Exchange. Once the greeting part is finished,
draw three tone cards from the Tone Deck, and select
one of them, which will represent your tone in this
exchange. Once your tone is set, and to know the
nature of the NPC’s answer, you make a 1d10 roll and
check the result in the Reaction Roll Table. Based on
the result and the Attitude of the NPC, the Reaction
will be positive, somewhat positive, somewhat
negative, or negative. The NPC Reaction Table tells
what specific Reaction corresponds to your used
tone, in the same order as mentioned: the positive
Reaction being the first shown one, the somewhat
positive the second, and so on. Beware than there are
some incompatible tone & Attitude combinations, so
if you draw the corresponding tone card, that
dialogue option won’t be available (i.e., in a
videogame, it would be ‘greyed out’) and you’ll have
to choose between the other two cards (or the only
one, in the most extreme case).
B) Second Exchange. If you want to keep talking, you
repeat the previous step by drawing three new tone
cards from your already reduced Tone Deck. Except if
the NPC was Furious, because in that case the
dialogue is over…and maybe fists start talking.
C) Third Exchange. You want more? Okay, no
problem, draw another three tone cards from your
now nearly exhausted Tone Deck, and repeat the
process. But try to tie everything up because this’s the
last exchange!
AFTERMATH
Once the Dialogue ends, you should ask yourself if
something has been said (or done) that could change
the nature of the relation with the NPC. But
remember that poor chosen words (or well chosen,
when that’s their goal) can quickly sour a
relationship…while a few pretty words, even if
welcomed, rarely are enough to improve it.
Also, if the Dialogue ends because the NPC gets
Furious, maybe it’s time to put the Dialogue rules
aside and dust off the combat rules from the system
you’re using. Or the chasing ones, if you just have
pissed off a very dangerous NPC. Just saying.
OPTIONAL RULES
PERSUADING
If you want to persuade an NPC, ask for something, etc.,
you can use one of the following options:
 Make the Exchange to represent the petition, and
then use the ‘persuasion’ system of the game you’re
playing, giving it a bonus or a penalty depending on
how well (or bad) the exchange went.
 Once the Dialogue has finished, make a final check
in the Reaction Roll Table, modifying the initial
Attitude of the NPC for worse or better depending
on how the dialogue went. Just interpret a positive
result as a “Yes”, a somewhat positive as a “Yes,
but”, a somewhat negative as a “No, but”, and
negative as a “No”.
LYING
If you want to lie during a Dialogue, play your tone card
and then use one of the following options:
 Use any action resolution system based on the game
you’re playing (as your classical skill roll) to check
if the NPC believes you or not.
 Base it just on the result in the Reaction Roll, so
you’re fully believed if the reaction is positive,
you’re barely believed if it’s somewhat positive, and
you’re caught lying if it’s somewhat negative or
negative.
In any case, if you’re caught lying, the NPC reaction
will be Rude instead of the default one for the tone you
used, or Hostile/Furious if it was already one of those.
THREE-SIDED DIALOGUES
Now that you know how to talk to one NPC, let’s see
what happens when you’re talking to more than one!
Or, to be precise, to two NPCs: in theory, you could
have a dialogue with even more characters, but if this
were a Visual Novel the screen would be too cluttered
…so let’s play along with the metaphor and avoid
doing it.
Three-sided conversations work like a normal
dialogue, with just some little differences: each NPC
may have different Attitudes, Topics and Moods and
will make a different Reaction Roll to check their
specific reaction. Also, if their Attitudes are different,
they may have a different reaction even when they
got the same result in the roll.
As expected, things could get a little
convoluted…but the good news is that the dialogue is
still limited to three exchanges; the bad news is that
you’ll have to cram every line on dialogue in them as
best as you can.
The combination of this optional rule with others
more complex ones, as the Advanced Moods (specially
these ones, in fact), are left as an exercise to the
reader. Ahem.
WILDCARD TONE
By default, LET’S TALK! gives equal odds to all tones
being drawn from the deck, regardless the PC
personality, social skills or how good (or bad) has been
their day. Cue the Wildcard tone optional rule, which
gives more weight to one specific tone and has some
additional nifty effects. To be precise, ‘Wildcard’ is NOT
a new tone by itself, but a new card that you include in
the Tone Deck as usual and represents a second instance
of another Tone card. Except the Err...hmm… one, if
you’re also using that soon to be described optional rule:
that would be silly.
WILDCARD SELECTION
There’re three ways to select which existing tone is
linked to the Wildcard one:
How you are. With this option, you select your
Wildcard tone during the creation of the PC, based on
their background, personality, etc. Note that the same
‘specialty tone’ can mean different things for different
characters, and not always for good: if you select ‘Sad’
as your Wildcard, this may mean that you’re a bit of a
crybaby…or a very empathic person; ‘Rude’ can mean
that you’re quite grumpy, or a total jerk, etc. As a
narrative tool, you can decide changing your Wildcard
Tone during the game if the events during it point to a
dramatic change of heart, in any direction. You can even
spend some time without a Wildcard Tone just to reflect
those changes taking time to settle. In fact, you could
assign the Err…hmm.. tone to the Wildcard until then,
because in this case it wouldn’t be silly at all, but
dramatic: it would represent your inner emotional
conflict and stuff.
How you feel. Who said that a PC couldn’t feel as
moody as NPC? With this option, before starting the
Dialogue, you select the nature of the Wildcard tone
based on how you should feel at that moment, but before
you roll the Mood of the NPC.
Both. You can combine both options by selecting two
or three tones as your usual ones. Then, you randomly
(or wittingly) choose one of them as your Wildcard tone
for each specific Dialogue, based on the current situation.
Again, you must do it before rolling the Mood of the
NPC.
 THE WILDCARD IN ACTION
You treat the Wildcard tone as a duplicate of another
tone card, which may allow you using the same tone
twice in the same dialogue if you draw it in different
exchanges (more on this in a moment). On the other
hand, if you’re lucky (?) and draw both the Wildcard
Tone and the copied tone in the same Exchange, you
must use that tone and skip the part where you make a
Reaction Roll: just apply the Reaction you want among
the four available! So yes, that means that maybe you as
a player weren’t too eager of using that tone…but you as
the PC don’t have any other option. Fair warning: if this
means that you’re forced to use a tone, but you can´t use
because it’s not available for that NPC…well, time to
apply that funny Err…hmm... Tone optional rule.
Note that you can select the Flirting or Romantic
tones as your Wildcard, but you still apply both their
requisites and limitations. Thus, if you can’t include the
original tone in the Tone Deck for whichever reason (the
NPC doesn’t pass the requisites, you’ve already used that
tone with that NPC recently, etc.), you can’t neither
include the Wildcard one. Also, you can try being
romantic or flirt twice in the same Dialogue if you deal
the corresponding cards in different Exchanges, but only
if the first time you use it gives you a somewhat positive
or somewhat negative Reaction: if things worked really
god or really bad the first time, there is no room for a
second one!
ERR…HMM… TONE
This rule is an escape clause (or, to use programming
lingo, an exception handler!) for those situations where
you find yourself with three tone cards in your hand
during an Exchange and you can’t use any of them. That
shouldn’t happen with the RAW system, as the worst-
case scenario (i.e., talking with a Very Unfriendly NPC
and getting both the Charming and Friendly tones in the
same exchange) still leaves you with one usable tone. But
once optional rules start piling-up, as hinted just above,
you may find out in one of those awkward situations. So,
when this happens, just use the Err…hmm… tone as a
default which, as expected, will make you look a bit silly.
If you’re using the Advanced Moods rules, there’s
another situation you would apply this rule: you use the
Err…hmm... tone if you try to play a tone card that ends
up being unusable once the NPC Mood is revealed
(because it’s a restricted tone for that Mood, or because
it’s restricted by the modified level of the NPC Attitude).
And, once again, you look a bit silly.
PARTY DIALOGUES
Dialogue rules assume that you-as-the-PC would be the
one talking, even when the PC is part of a group. There’re
alternatives, on the other hand, all of them based on
assigning a Wildcard Tone to every NPC that’s in the
party (their ‘favorite’ one), but in some cases giving it a
different meaning.
Let’s our spokesperson take care of this. This is the
simplest option. At the start of the Dialogue, select one
spokesperson for the party, and use the rules as written
from the point of view of that character.
Polite interruptions. You still select one
spokesperson, but when you draw a Wildcard Tone card
you can make any other member of the party intervene in
that exchange, using their assigned Wildcard Tone. If
you don’t, then the spokesperson will still be the one
doing the talk, as usual.
Impolite interruption. As the previous one, but in
this case you can’t choose: someone else intervenes,
period, using their ‘favorite’ tone. You may leave to
chance who does that, or you may select the more fitting
character. Note that if you draw both the Wildcard and
the favorite Tone card of someone, that character would
be quite fitting!
HARDCORE MODE
Do you want a challenge? What about, instead of
drawing three new cards each exchange, only using the
three you draw at the start of the Dialogue? Once each,
as usual? That’s hardcore!
This may put you in a very precarious position, and
trying to end a Dialogue ASAP when there’s some Tone
you don’t want to use at all. Also, it may put you in a
position where you have a card, or several (or all, if you
start piling-up optional rules!) that you can’t use! Of
course, there’s the Err…Hmm Tone rule, but if you’re
playing in Hardcore Mode you should use a less
punishing version of it: when you don’t have any card
you can use in your hand, you can discard one and draw
another. Note that a) if the one you draw is still unusable,
then Fate has spoken and you must ‘use’ it and activate
the Err…Hmm Tone, and b) this can only invoke this
clause when you know that you have no usable Tones,
and not when you use one and then it’s revealed that you
shouldn’t have use it because you didn’t read the room.
Hardcore Mode is compatible with plenty of other
optional Dialogue rules, but not all. For example, the
‘reshuffle’ special effect in the next section means little
in Hardcore Mood: putting a card again in a deck you’re
NOT expected to use any more except in very specific
cases (i.e., those ‘draw another card instead of just using
the Err…Hmm Tone) doesn’t sound as a big deal.
Finally, regarding the Party Dialogue options, its ‘polite
interruption’ version would give you a breather, as
drawing the Wildcard gives you several options (one for
each different Wildcard tone in your party); you decide
if this’s still hardcore enough or not.
ADVANCED MOODS
This section offers a series of additional optional rules
regarding one specific topic: NPC Moods and their
effect.
READING THE ROOM
By default, you assign a Mood to an NPC during the
Greetings phase of the Dialogue, but you can use this
little change instead: before assigning it, make an
appropriate skill roll, test, or whatever would fit the game
system you’re playing:
 If you success: You assign the Mood of the NPC
before the Dialogue starts.
 If you barely success: Make a Mood Roll,
selecting two different Moods from the same
column. You won’t know which one is the right
one until you have played your first tone card.
 If you fail: You just get a general idea of how good
or crappy is the NPC Mood: make a Mood Roll, but
just to check the column. Don’t roll for the row
until you have played you first tone card.
 If you fail by a high margin, fumble, etc.: Nope,
you read nothing. Don’t make the Mood Roll until
you have played your first tone card.
ASSIGNING MOODS
In this section, you’ll find different ways to assign a
Mood to an NPC that make the whole process a bit less
random…or even quite predictable, in some cases! As
each method has its own merits, you can apply them in a
case-by-case bases, instead of limiting yourself to just
one.
PERSONALITY MOODS
A Mood can be interpreted as a default state: how
an NPC feels and acts when there’s no circumstance
modifying it. In case of an NPC you have just met and
who’s a stranger, you should assign it at random and
let it be. Just note it down, nevertheless, in case you
meet the same NPC latter: that would be a good time
to decide if that original Mood was just a temporal
thing, or if it was a case of the NPC showing their true
colors from the very beginning.
Reading the room: If you’re using this option to
assign a Mood, you can apply the ‘reading the room’
optional rule as written.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL MOODS
An NPC who is being affected by some
circumstances, especially if you were involved in
them, may have a mood be based on them. In this
case, you may still roll for a random Mood, but with
the clause ‘it can’t be better / worse that X’ added to
it. Or you may select the two or three more likely
Moods and chose one of them at random.
Example I: if you meet a security guard who’s a
total stranger to you, and they have caught you
red-handed in a restricted place, the best-case
scenario is that guard being Suspicious (hey,
maybe there’s some reason for you being there,
after all!). So you may roll for a Mood, but if you
get anything that sounds better than Suspicious
you would default to that.
Example II: if you have recently betrayed
someone, best case would be that person being
Skeptical. Worst case scenario…well, you could
probably imagine that! So, for that NPC, you
would roll for a Mood, and if it sounds better
than Skeptical you would default to that one
instead.
Example III: if you have recently saved the life of
someone, that person should feel at the very
least Pleased with you. That is, if that NPC isn’t
an ungrateful curmudgeon…but, even in that
case, it may be just a case of ‘I’m thankful to you
but I don’t want to make it too evident’. So, you
may roll for a Mood, and if you get anything that
sounds worse than Pleased, you should default
to that.
Example IV: you pay a visit to a scholar friend
because you need help translating a mysterious
clay scripture. Something that sounds like
‘Choucroute Fun Tag’, but you may be reading it
wrong. Problem is, it’s 2:00 AM, so you wake up
your friend. You can expect them to feel
Inquisitive (as in, interested in the topic), Sleepy,
or Grumpy. Giving a 1/3 chance to each of those
Moods seems a fair option, then.
Reading the room: If you’re using this option to
assign a Mood you should apply a binary version of
the ‘reading the room’ optional rule. I.e., any success
lets you assign the mood before the Dialogue starts,
and any failure only lets you assign it once you have
selected your first tone.
ATTITUDE MOODS
When an NPC already knows you, they may put
aside their problems for a moment when seeing a
friendly face (hey, maybe that’s just what the NPC
needed at that moment if they were feeling blue!) or
put on guard as soon as seeing you walk through the
door. Thus, your mutual relationship can be used as a
guideline to decide the mood of that NPC during the
Dialogue. Just use on the Mood Roll (Attitude)
version of the table, checking the more fitting column
and rolling only for the row. The repertoire of
potential moods, in this case, is somewhat limited: as
mentioned, it’s assumed that minor matters would be
put aside.
Reading the room: If you’re using this option to
assign a Mood, you already know what column you’re
rolling in. So, apply the ‘reading the room’ rules as
written, but any failure leaves you with no further
information.
MECHANICAL EFFECTS
By default, an NPC Mood is a narrative tag that helps
you when you want to roleplay that NPC during a
Dialogue. This optional rule, on the other hand, gives
a mechanical effect to every possible Mood. All 50 of
them; it may sound a bit overkill but remember that
you’ll only have to apply one Mood each time, and
their effects follow a similar formatting…so it should
not be too overwhelming. Nevertheless, don’t forget
the roleplaying aspect: these mechanical effects are
meant to add to it, not just replace it!
Below, you’ll find the description of the different
mechanical effects of each Mood. As you would see,
some effects are applied for the full Dialogue, while
others have a limited duration; regardless the case, all
the mentioned durations apply to all the included
effects in that Mood.
Example: the Charming Mood reads as “+1
Charming & +1 Flirting & +1 Romantic until
getting a Furious, Hostile, Reject, or Rude
reaction’. This means that the three mentioned
tones get that bonus until you get any one the
four mentioned Reactions.
Also, for those cases where the effects apply until
getting (or after getting) some specific reaction from
that NPC, note that a) those reactions can come from
any tone, and not just those affected by that specific
Mood, and b) any change will be applied in the next
Exchange, and not the current one.
Example: if you get a Satisfaction reaction from
an Angry NPC, that NPC wouldn’t be Angry any
more…but this only takes effect in the following
Exchange, not in the one you got this.
Finally, don’t expect too much balance in these
effects: there’re some Moods that could be seen as
‘better’ than others…as it should be!
+1/-1 MODIFIER
This effects improve or worsen in one step,
respectively, the NPC Attitude for specific tones, for
all of them, etc. Thus, a Friendly NPC who gets a +1
would be treated as Very friendly, a Neutral NPC who
gets a -1 would be treated as Unfriendly etc.
If you get a +1 when the Attitude is already Very
friendly, then you can ignore the Reaction Roll: just
select what’s the reaction of the NPC among the four
possible outcomes. Conversely, if you get a -1 when
the Attitude is already Very unfriendly, then you
automatically get the Negative reaction (i.e., the
fourth and worst of all!).
Note that these bonus or penalties only apply in
the Exchange they’re activated, but they don’t carry
out to the next one. E.g., if you use a Sad tone with an
Empathic NPC, you treat their Attitude as one step
better for that Exchange, but this doesn’t apply to
further ones.
Example: back to the Charming Mood, if you try
to flirt with a Neutral NPC, you’ll roll and check
columns as if that NPC was Friendly. If the NPC
Reject your flirting, on the other hand, you lose
that bonus for the rest of the Dialogue.
Example: the Stubborn Mood reads as “-1 to all
tones until the end of the Dialogue after getting
a Disagreement, Furious, Hostile, or Rude
reaction”. This means you initially don’t apply
any penalty because of this mood…but if you get
one of those listed reactions, you’ll suffer that -1
penalty for the rest of Exchanges. I.e., once the
NPC enters a negative state of mind, it’s hard to
overcome it!
RESHUFFLE
When a Mood tells you to reshuffle a tone, you
include it again in the Tone Deck after you draw it
during a Dialogue once you resolve the Exchange
(regardless of if you used that card or not), but only
the first time this happens. This also applies to the
Wildcard tone if it’s imitating the mentioned tone! On
the other hand, if you just draw both the Wildcard and
its linked tone card in one go, you just reshuffle the
later but not the former.
Example: NPCs who feel Jokey are in the proper
mood for funny comments. Thus, the first time
you use draw the Humorous card in an Exchange,
you put it back in the Tone Deck. And if
Humorous is your Wildcard Tone…well, with a
bit of luck you may end up playing that tone a
whooping three times!
RESTRICT
A Mood may lock a tone, making it unavailable
during that Dialogue. You still include its card in the
Tone Deck, if it’s one of the nine ‘always present’
tones. Also, as mentioned, if you must use that tone
because you get both its card and the Wildcard linked
to it in the same exchange, you just use the Err…hmm
tone instead.
 Example: when NPCs feel Sleepy, they’re not negative Reaction instead. Also, note that this
predisposed to shocking revelations, so you effect has no duration set, so it applies to all the
can’t use the Surprise Tone with them. Dialogue. Pesky nitpickers…

SHIFT OTHERS
Improve or worsen in one step one of the four There’re Moods with effects that doesn’t fit the
possible reactions, as in from Positive to Somewhat already described ones. With a bit of luck, they’ll be
positive, or Negative to Somewhat negative. If you self-explanatory enough.
could select the reaction because you played both a
Example: A Tired NPC isn’t for a long talk, so the
tone and its linked Wildcard, first select the reaction
Dialogue will have, at most, two Exchanges. Of
and then shift it.
course, you should consider this when playing
Example: Nitpicking NPCs tend to look for any those Exchanges, making them also brief.
minor fault in your words and magnify them.
Thus, any time you roll a somewhat negative
Reaction for them, the result it’s treated as a

MOODS EFFECTS
Angry. -1 to every tone until getting a Flirting, Dreamy. +1 Friendly & +1 Charming until
Happy, Helpful, Romantic, or Satisfaction getting a Furious, Hostile, Reject, Rude, Sad, or
reaction. Worried reaction.
Arrogant. -1 Rude & Restrict Charming until Dubitative. -1 Charming & +1 Questioning for all
getting a Flirting, Happy, Helpful, Romantic, or the Dialogue.
Satisfaction reaction.
Egotist. -1 Worried & Restrict Sad for all the
Bold. -1 Aggressive & -1 Rude for all the Dialogue.
Dialogue.
Empathic. +1 Sad & +1 Worried for all the
Bored. -1 Charming & Restrict Surprised until Dialogue.
getting a Flirting, Romantic or Surprised
Envious. -1 Friendly & Restrict Charming for all
reaction.
the Dialogue.
Caring. +1 Sad & +1 Worried until getting a
Excited. Shift all Somewhat positive reactions to
Furious, Hostile, or Rude reaction.
Positive, and all Somewhat negative reactions to
Charming. +1 Charming & +1 Flirting & +1 Negative for all the Dialogue.
Romantic until getting a Furious, Hostile, Reject,
Fair. This mood doesn’t give any effects. It’s fair!
or Rude reaction.
Fastidious. -1 Sad & -1 Worried until getting a
Chatty. +1 Questioning & +1 Surprised for all the
Sad or Worried reaction.
Dialogue.
Gossipy. +1 Questioning & Reshuffle
Clueless. +1 Worried & Restrict Questioning for
Questioning for all the Dialogue.
all the Dialogue.
Grumpy. -1 to all tones until getting a Flirting,
Defiant. -1 Rude & Restrict Friendly for all the
Happy, Helpful, Romantic, or Satisfaction
Dialogue.
reaction.
Diplomatic. Shift all Somewhat negative
Happy. +1 to all tones until getting a Furious,
reactions to Somewhat positive until getting a
Hostile, Reject, Rude, Sad, or Worried reaction.
Furious, Hostile, or Rude reaction.
Harsh. -1 to all tones for the rest of the Dialogue Proud. -1 to every tone for the rest of the
after getting a Disagreement, Furious, Hostile, Dialogue after getting a Disagreement, Furious,
Reject, or Rude reaction. Hostile, Reject, or Rude reaction.
Helpful. +1 Sad & +1 Worried until getting a Sad. +1 Sad & Restrict Humorous until getting a
Furious, Hostile, or Rude reaction. Flirting, Happy, Romantic, or Satisfaction
reaction.
Humble. +1 to all tones in the first exchange of
the dialogue. Sarcastic. -1 for all tones until getting a Flirting,
Happy, Helpful, Romantic, or Satisfaction
Impatient. -1 to all tones in the second and third
reaction.
Exchange.
Scared. +1 Worried & Reshuffle Worried for all
Inquisitive. +1 Questioning for all the Dialogue.
the Dialogue.
Ironic: -1 for all tones until getting a Furious,
Self-absorbed. -1 Sad & Restrict Worried until
Hostile, or Rude reaction.
getting a Sad, Surprised, or Worried reaction.
Jokey. +1 Humorous & Reshuffle Humorous for
Skeptical. -1 to all tones in the first exchange of
all the Dialogue.
the dialogue.
Negotiator. For all the Dialogue, -1 to every tone
Sleepy. -1 Questioning & Restrict Surprised for
in the next Exchange after getting a Negative
all the Dialogue.
reaction & +1 to every tone in the next Exchange
after getting a Positive reaction. Somber. +1 Worried & Restrict Humorous for all
the Dialogue.
Nitpicking. Shift all Somewhat positive reactions
in the Dialogue to Somewhat negative. Startled. +1 Surprised for all the Dialogue &
Reshuffle Surprised.
Overwhelmed. +1 Rude & +1 Aggressive for all
the Dialogue. Strict. Shift all Somewhat negative reactions to
Negative for all the Dialogue.
Pacific. +1 Rude & restrict Aggressive for all the
Dialogue. Stubborn. -1 to all tones until the end of the
Dialogue after getting a Disagreement, Furious,
Patient. Shift all Negative reactions to Somewhat
Hostile, or Rude reaction.
negative for all the Dialogue.
Suspicious. In the first exchange of the Dialogue,
Placative. +1 Aggressive & +1 Rude until getting
shift a Somewhat positive reaction to Somewhat
a Furious, Hostile, or Rude reaction.
negative, and a Positive reaction to Somewhat
Pleased. +1 to all tones until getting a positive.
Disagreement, Furious, Hostile, Reject, Rude,
Sympathetic. +1 Friendly & Reshuffle Friendly
Sad, or Worried reaction.
until getting a Furious, Hostile, or Rude reaction.
Pragmatic. Shift the first Positive reaction
Tired. Automatically ends the Dialogue after the
during the dialogue to Somewhat positive, and
second Exchange.
the first Negative reaction to Somewhat negative.
CHOUCROUTE FUN TAG! - A FULL DIALOGUE EXAMPLE
For this final section, one of the previous mini-
examples has been retaken and turned it into a full-
fledged example. There’s no prize for guessing which
one because (well, duh!) that title above already
spoiled the answer!
This example includes some optional rules:
namely, the Wildcard Tone and the Advanced Moods.
It also includes some discussion about the
interpretation of the results, and how to take
advantage of them to introduce plot elements,
background, story hooks, etc. But you can take this
last part with a grain of salt: it’s a personal
interpretation, after all!
THE STORY SO FAR…
This Dialogue is played in the context of a solo-
roleplaying session with a light-tone (even tongue-in-
cheek, at times), and a modern-day, pulp-adventure
setting. There is no need to specify what RPG is being
used: let’s just say it’s one of those roll-under %
systems, with some leeway in the form of some rule-
of-cool/lucky-points to avoid the protagonist from
dying an ignoble death or going nuts too early.
This way, our daring explorer and protagonist
Dora E. Thurston (yep, I know no shame) has found a
clay tablet with a mysterious inscription among the
belongings of his recently deceased old uncle. She
needs help to translate it, so she knocks the door of
her friend Norbert Longdam (nope, sir, no shame at
all) at 2:00 AM. Not the best hour for an erudite
exchange, but whatever.
It’s assumed that Dora has a Friendly relationship
with Longdam and that her Wildcard Tone is
Questioning, representing her curious and inquisitive
nature. The same nature that moves her to knock
someone’s door at 2:00 AM to ask some erudite
questions!
Oh, and by the way: this example is going to be
written assuming that Dora is both the player and the
character of the game. She seems to be trying one of
those ‘role-play yourself’ thingies…
GREETINGS
There is no need to roll for a topic because Dora is the
one approaching Longdam, so that topic is already
known: Dora wants to talk about that inscription.
Now, with respect to Longdam’s Mood, it’ll be based
on the current context: friendly or not, being woken
up at 2:00 AM isn’t a pleasant experience! So it’s
assumed he can react by being Inquisitive, Sleepy or
Grumpy, with same odds for each option.
Dora, wisely, tries to read the room before saying
anything: she successfully makes a Perception skill
roll on the original system, so she will know that
Mood from the very beginning.
After rolling 1d3 (details are left as an exercise for
the reader), the result is that Longdam is feeling
Sleepy. All of this means that Dora must apply a -1 to
the relationship level when she uses the Questioning
tone (Longdam is no mood for debating now…which
aren’t good news, being this the goal of Dora, and
looking at her Wildcard Tone!), and she can’t use the
Surprised tone (Longdam is too sleepy to feel
surprised by anything).
From a narrative perspective, nevertheless, Longdam
should be roleplayed as a friendly scholarly dude who’s
feeling sleepy at that moment, and that should be
considered when interpreting (and writing down) his
reactions.
<KNOCK KNOCK>
Longdam: What…what’s happening?!? Has the Pope been
murdered? Again? Who has been this…? Oh. It’s you. I
should have imagined that…
Dora: Hi, Norbert! Don’t worry, the Pope is fine. As far as I
know, I mean! I came to ask you about something else, but
it’s also interesting! (^ ▽ ^)
Longdam: So interesting that it couldn’t wait until, you
know, tomorrow in the morning? Well, today in the
morning, at this point? (￢ ￢)
Dora: Hmm…yes. Or so I hope! (^ ▽
^)
FIRST EXCHANGE
Dora shuffles the nine basic tone cards plus the
Wildcard Tone one. She could include the Flirting
tone in the deck, but it doesn’t seem to be a good time
for it. Also, Dora suspects she will end up playing
second fiddle in all the story if she flirts with
Longdam: for such a nerdy guy, he always manages to
meet a ‘girl of the week’ each time he gets involved in
a big adventure!
Dora draws three cards and gets the following
tones: Wildcard, Aggressive and Surprised. She can’t
play the third one. And sure as heck she doesn’t want
to play the second! Only option left is, thus, the
Wildcard…which in her case means using the
Questioning tone. Of course, this means she gets a
penalty, but it’s still a lesser evil.
After rolling a d10 in the Reaction Roll, Dora gets
a 4. She must check the ‘Neutral’ column instead of
the ‘Friendly’ one because of that pesky -1
penalty…which, in this case, doesn’t matter too much
as both have the same results: a ‘somewhat negative’
Reaction. And for a Neutral NPC (in this case, there is
a difference compared to a Friendly one) and a
Questioning tone, the Reaction Table gives a
‘Neutral’ result. Longdam isn’t going to vehemently
react in any direction, then; nevertheless, note that it
still has been a poor result.
Dora: I have found this clay tablet as part of my old uncle
most recent research. The one he was doing just before he
died, I mean. But I can’t make head or tails of this text, and
I think it could be important...
Longdam: [YAWN] Hmm, how strange. It seems a mix of
several pictograms from different sources. But it looks like
an attempt at a phonetical transcription.
Dora: That’s what I thought, too! But, as far as I can get, this
would sound something like…CHOUCROUTE FUN TAG…
Longdam: That’s a...uh…quite liberal interpretation of the
symbols, I would dare to say... ( . . )

Dora: I know! It doesn’t make any sense! What does
sauerkraut could have to do with all of this?
SECOND EXCHANGE
Dora draw three new tone cards from the (now
smaller) deck. This time, she gets Rude, Questioning
and Charming.
Once again, Rude is a big no-no. She could use it to
vent about something she finds annoying or
infuriating instead of directing that rudeness to her
friend (unlike the Aggressive tone, which always
points to the listener), but it doesn’t look like a fitting
time to do that. With respect to Questioning, she could
assume that penalty again, but twice in a row seems a
bit too much. So she selects Charming to flatter her
friend a bit. What could possibly go wrong?
The result in the d10 in the Reaction Roll is a 1.
Which means that she gets the worst possible
reaction, negative: for the used tone and a Friendly
NPC is Neutral, again. So that was what could go
wrong, then…
Dora: Nevertheless, you’re one of the best experts in the
field, so you were the first one I think about to help with
this!
Longdam: Wait, is this going to be like that time in
Cambodia, then? I would prefer not getting involved in
another diplomatic incident…
Dora: What?!? No, it’s nothing like that! And that wasn’t my
fault at all, I was framed!
Longdam: Yes, sorry, I remember now. I shouldn’t have
mentioned it. I blame sleep deprivation.
As can be seen, a Neutral Reaction doesn’t need to
be just a ‘meh, whatever’, even if it could be. In this
case, it’s been a mix of pointing-finger + sorry-for-
pointing-fingers, balancing each other. With a pinch
of passive-aggressiveness at the end, but who could
blame him?
Also, all that stuff about ‘a time in Cambodia’,
‘being framed’, etc., could be a reference to something
that happened during a previous session, or just
something made up on the spot. The latter, in turn,
could be just some ‘noodle incident’ no one wants to
talk again. But if this adventure takes Dora to
Southeast Asia, this comment in pass could be used
to…hmm…ensue some hilarity.
INTERLUDE
Until this point, the Dialogue hasn’t gone too well for
Dora. As she’s talking with a friend (even if a sleepy
one!), it’s not a disaster because there’s been no
adversarial reaction from Longdam…but no
encouraging ones, either. So, Dora decides she should
already check if she gets what she has come for, by
using a Persuasion skill roll in the original rule-
system. For fairness sake, she applies a -15% penalty
to that roll because of all bad rolls for Reactions until
now: a penalty that system suggests as ‘relevant but
not overwhelming’, which seems to fit the situation.
Clare success…but only by a tiny, little bit.
Checking the rules of that RPG, that should be
interpreted as a ‘success with a cost’ or as a ‘yes,
but…’. So she selects the second option: she gets what
she came for (Longdam’s help), but not exactly the
way she likes.
Longdam: Okay, I admit this looks interesting enough, so
I’m going to give it a try...
Dora: Excellent! Let’s…!
Longdam: ...in the morning.
Dora: In the morning?!? But…
Longdam: No buts! I’ll work on this after I wake up, first
thing in the morning before going to work. But now, I need
to sleep. Because I must go to work.
Dora: …Okay, that’s fair. More than fair, even. Thank you.
Note that Dora hasn’t explicitly asked for anything
in this little exchange (and Exchange), because the
petition was already made. This way, you can see
everything that came before during the Dialogue as a
way to decide if that skill roll you already had in mind
would eventually deserve a bonus or a penalty.
THIRD EXCHANGE
Time to wrap everything up because Dora hasn’t
finished yet. She draws three cards from the nearly
exhausted Tone Deck, and get Sad, Worried and
Friendly. This last one seems fitting enough…but, for
fun and giggles, she decides to use the Worried one. In
a bit sui generis way, as it’ll be seen.
 And at last, Dora is lucky and gets a 9 on the
Reaction Roll: a positive Reaction (hey, better late
than never!), which means a Helpful reaction from
Longdam!
Longdam: So, it’s a deal, we’ll see again in the…
Dora: Wait, are you kicking me out? At this time of night?!?
Longdam: (O__O)!!!
Dora: I mean…it’s well past 2:00 AM. It’s cold…and I could
run into a robber… (´o ︵ o`)
[BEAT]
Longdam: HA HA HA! I pity the fool who would try to rob
you! Okay, just to save that poor wretch from being
punched in the face, you can stay at the guest room. But, just
for the record: you know no shame. Also, don’t expect me to
prepare the room: I’m going to sleep, for good!
Dora: Yay! Thank you, Norbert! (^ ^)
▽
How much of Dora concerns were real and how
much they were a pose is left as an exercise for the
reader, too. Point is, even if all this this sounded a lot
as another petition from Dora, this time she decides
to solve it just by using the rolled reaction. She
counted on getting a good result, after two bad
Reaction Rolls in a row; that was gambler’s fallacy
working at its best, but who cares? And getting a
Helpful reaction seems auspicious enough, in that
sense, so there’s no need of another Persuasion skill
roll and stuff.
AFTERMATH
Dora doesn’t feel the Dialogue should change the
nature of her relationship with Longdam: it all has
been just a friendly exchange between two persons
who are already friends. So she readies to stay over at
Longdam’s place, until they wake up in the morning
to study that clay tablet. Let’s just hope that, during
that night, the house isn’t assaulted by some
members of the Cult of Choucroute...or however you
should pronounce that!
 TOPIC ROLL
1d10 TOPIC
1-2 The NPC just wants to say ‘Hi!’
3-4 The NPC brings some news.
5-6 The NPC wants to remind you something.
7-8 The NPC has a petition or a demand.
9-10 The NPC brings an opportunity.

MOOD ROLL
2D10 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10
1 Angry Bored Chatty Diplomatic Caring
2 Arrogant Dubitative Gossipy Bold Charming
3 Defiant Nitpicking Impatient Clueless Empathic
4 Egotist Overwhelmed Ironic Dreamy Excited
5 Envious Proud Negotiator Fair Happy
6 Fastidious Sarcastic Self-absorbed Humble Helpful
7 Grumpy Scared Sleepy Inquisitive Pacific
8 Harsh Skeptical Somber Jokey Patient
9 Sad Startled Strict Pleased Placative
10 Suspicious Stubborn Tired Pragmatic Sympathetic

REACTION ROLL
1d10 Very unfriendly Unfriendly Neutral Friendly Very friendly
1-2 Negative Negative Negative Negative Negative
3-4 Negative Somewhat negative Somewhat negative Somewhat negative Somewhat negative
5-6 Somewhat negative Somewhat negative Somewhat positive Somewhat positive Somewhat positive
7-8 Somewhat positive Somewhat positive Somewhat positive Somewhat positive Positive
9-10 Positive Positive Positive Positive Positive

MOOD ROLL (ATTITUDE)

1D10 Very unfriendly Unfriendly Neutral Friendly Very friendly
1 Angry Angry Grumpy Nitpicking Self-absorbed
2 Defiant Harsh Suspicious Dubitative Inquisitive
3 Harsh Grumpy Impatient Self-absorbed Pragmatic
4 Arrogant Suspicious Nitpicking Chatty Chatty
5 Grumpy Ironic Self-absorbed Inquisitive Fair
6 Suspicious Skeptical Fair Fair Patient
7 Sarcastic Impatient Negotiator Patient Empathic
8 Skeptical Dubitative Pragmatic Empathic Sympathetic
9 Dubitative Negotiator Diplomatic Sympathetic Helpful
10 Pragmatic Pragmatic Empathic Helpful Caring
 NPC REACTION
Very unfriendly Unfriendly Friendly
TONE Neutral Very Friendly

REACTION ORDER: Positive / Somewhat positive/Somewhat negative/Negative