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NPC (Non Player Character) Usually used to refer to characters in an MMORPG that are computer controlled

Wow that NPC is selling cheap swords!

By Anonymous

Non-Player Character. In general, any character (human or otherwise) in a role-playing game that is not controlled by someone playing the game. In a tabletop RPG, the game master or equivalent (the person running the game) will generally act/speak the parts of all NPCs. These NPCs can range anywhere from an innkeeper the players talk to in order to rent a room to the mysterious woman who follows your party along for her own unknown reasons only to backstab you right when you were starting to trust her. It's up to the GM. In LARP, the people running the game will again play the NPC parts, and may enlist others to be NPCs. In an ongoing game, LARP NPCs tend to be the characters who are either too temporary or too important to be done by a given player. In single-player video game RPGs, NPCs are anyone who isn't your party. They generally aren't referred to as such in this context because "the guy next to the weapon shop" works just as well. These NPCs have a set dialog, and most will repeat the same thing they say every time you try to talk to them. Several webcomics have poked fun at this. And in a MMORPG, the NPCs are the characters controlled by the server. They often have some kind of distinguishing feature, such as listing their trade in their status window or their name being displayed in a different color of text. As with single-player RPGs, these NPCs will tend to have set patterns of behavior and often must be interacted with to achieve some objective or another.

I need someone who's not playing a regular character to be a NPC today. Talk to the NPC by the gates to start the item collecting quest.

By Artscrafter

A "non playable character" To refer to someone as an npc, is a way of calling them predictable and act and repeat words said.

You act like an npc.

By Guliguligug

1. Used to denote a video-game character that is not controlled by a player. 2. Someone, regardless of their views, who doesn't think for themselves. Contrary to what most conservatives tell you, all NPCs aren't liberal, and all liberals aren't NPCs. If you blindly agree with whatever a person says, you're an NPC.

1. NPC don't resist when a bloody train is coming at them in GTA, it's hilarious. 2. "Orange Man Bad. Satan himself. Whatever he does is wrong. If you disagree, you're a fascist! And don't call me an NPC, that's dehumanizing!" "Orange Man Good. God himself. Whatever he does is right. If you disagree, you're a communist! You're an NPC!"

By Kelpy G

1. Really means non-playable characters that are programmed to act a certain way in games. Usually games under the rpg category have npcs 2. Overused term just to mean someone who doesn’t think for themselves. Conservatives think that all liberals are npcs, which is not true btw. 3. Term used by random people who think they know better than everyone to be obnoxious

1. “Look, that NPC just entered their house. I better get to bed.” 2. Person 1: “Damn liberals are all NPCs.” Person 2: “No they aren’t lmao” 3: Person 3: “oMg look at all of those NPCs just walking around.” Person 4: “If you read books in your free time your an NPC BAHAHA!!!”

By buddy...not.the.elf.