Re: [DL] Help with an NPC that has Multiple Personalities

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I personally find that the best way to handle multiple personalities is to start slow and work up, for example, ok, he's a cow poke at the moment, his first flip out happens to make him a slightly confused buffalo gal, in a mans body, "Winston Taylor becomes Winnafred"

The hardest thing about this is going to be taking away the comedy and placing pity and a desire to help within the party. A good way to do this is to have him kill the cow pokes dog in accordance with the following character on the grounds that....

Major Jack Galveston of the United States Cavalry... a bluff, no-nonsense, straight-talking heroic sort of old-fashioned chap. Very stiff upper lip and all that sort of thing. He looks like a Nordic version of Omar Sharif in Dr. Zhivago, with a moustache, a pipe, a hip flask full of single malt, a labrador called Hotspur and a horse that I called Silverflame. He was from an old aristocratic military family back in England, but I suspect some falling out with his relatives had caused him to cross the pond and attend West Point before heading into the Union Cavalry, and from there, south to Texas. His nightmare was being the only man alive on a battlefield, surrounded by the bodies of his dead comrades.

The ohter point would be as an excuse to actually create multiple characters and use the crack in his mind to house a nice lil manitou who opens the door to the spirit world and consequently actually lets this guys mind get possessed by the souls of the dead.