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NPCGen5e

The solution for all of your Dungeons and Dragons 5e NPC needs

NPCGen5e is a tool for fifth-edition Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Masters available on the iOS App Store market. It randomly creates an NPC to use in your world, based on the rules laid out in the Dungeon Master's Guide and Player's Handbook, with a little extra flavor from yours truly!

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Business Context

Keep the Story Moving

Every Dungeon Master knows the moment: the party walks up to an unnamed guard, merchant, traveler, or tavern regular, and suddenly that background character needs a name, personality, stats, and a reason to exist. NPCGen5e was built to make those moments easier, faster, and more fun.

The goal was to create a practical tool for fifth-edition DMs that can generate useful NPCs on the fly while still leaving room for creativity at the table. Whether you need a quick encounter, a memorable shopkeeper, or a character worth saving for later, NPCGen5e helps turn "give me a second" into "you meet someone interesting."

Key Highlights

Built for Busy DMs

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Create ready-to-use fifth-edition NPCs in seconds, without stopping the momentum of your session.

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Generate more than just stats, with roleplaying details like mannerisms, flaws, bonds, talents, appearance, and voice.

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Save, edit, filter, and export NPCs so your favorite characters are ready whenever your campaign needs them.

Fast NPC Generation

Characters When You Need Them

NPCGen5e helps Dungeon Masters quickly create fifth-edition NPCs for their campaigns, complete with practical game details like ability scores, saving throws, skills, armor class, hit points, languages, senses, traits, actions, and challenge rating.

It is designed for the moments when prep time is short, players go off-script, or a session suddenly needs a character who feels more complete than a name scribbled in the margin.

More Than Stat Blocks

Built for Roleplay, Too

Great NPCs are not just numbers on a sheet. NPCGen5e adds roleplaying flavor such as mannerisms, talents, bonds, flaws, appearance, and voice descriptions to help make generated characters easier to bring to life at the table.

That extra detail gives DMs a stronger starting point, whether the character is only needed for one scene or unexpectedly becomes someone the party remembers.

Prep Now, Use Later

Save, Edit, Filter, Export

NPCGen5e supports a more flexible campaign workflow with tools for filtering generated NPCs, saving characters, editing details, and exporting NPCs in multiple formats.

Instead of treating generated characters as disposable, the app helps DMs keep the good ones, adjust them to fit the campaign, and bring them back when the story calls for it.

Made for the Table

Practical Tools for Real Sessions

NPCGen5e was built around the way tabletop games actually unfold: quickly, unpredictably, and often with players asking questions no one planned for. The app gives DMs a reliable way to respond without breaking the flow of the game.

From quick improvisation to between-session prep, NPCGen5e keeps the focus where it belongs - on memorable encounters, smoother storytelling, and rolling the dice.

Legal

Open Game License

The material used within this app and on this webpage is Open Game Content, and is licensed for public use under the terms of the Open Game License v1.0a Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Tap here to see a copy of the full license.

Screenshots

How NPCGen5e works in practice.

These screenshots show how NPCGen5e supports real use cases, workflows, and day-to-day interaction.

Angled phone screenshot of NPCGen5e showing a generated rock gnome NPC with artwork and a detailed fifth-edition stat block.

Ready When the Party Wanders

Generate NPCs quickly and easily when your players meet someone unexpected during their travels.

NPCGen5e app displaying a generated half-orc NPC stat block with armor class, hit points, ability scores, skills, languages, challenge rating, and roleplaying details.

Generate Complete NPCs

Create fifth-edition NPCs with usable stat blocks, roleplaying traits, occupations, appearances, voices, and encounter-ready details.

NPCGen5e saved NPC list showing several generated fantasy characters with names, ancestry, gender, and alignment.

Save Your Best NPCs

Keep fully generated NPCs ready for future sessions, complete with combat stats, roleplaying details, and character flavor.

NPCGen5e filters screen showing selectable options for occupations and races, including soldier, thief, dragonborn, dwarf, elf, and gnome.

Find the Right Fit

Use filters to generate NPCs that match your campaign's needs, from occupation and race to other character-defining details.

NPCGen5e export menu showing options to export a generated NPC as NPC, text, or XML.

Export and Share

Export NPCs as NPC, text, or XML files to share with other Dungeon Masters or use in compatible fifth-edition tools.

NPCGen5e edit screen showing customizable fields for a generated NPC, including name, size, race, occupation, gender, alignment, level, armor class, hit dice, movement, and ability scores.

Customize Every Detail

Edit generated NPCs to better fit your campaign, adjust their stats, and shape them into exactly the character your story needs.

Work With MieTech

Need software built around the way your business works?

NPCGen5e reflects the kind of software we build to solve practical business problems, support real workflows, and make day-to-day work easier for the people using it.

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