What NPC Tokens do you most regularly use/need?

Allo, I'm working on a new marketplace set of Medieval/Fantasy NPC tokens done in a style similar to Galactic Grunts and the defenders in Castle Creators . I was going to just jump straight in to it, but then it occurred to me that perhaps it might be best to hear from the community about what types of NPCs you folks most regularly look for when creating your campaigns, whether they be friendly or hostile. So that's the question: What NPCs do you most regularly use and/or need?

Pulp please!  With appropriate Lovecraftian critters...

Well, I want a lot more options of townsfolk in different races. As it is now, there's mostly human NPCs, and I'd love to be able to pick between several bartenders, several maids, several blacksmiths, several nobles, and what lacks most, I think, is just simple "nobodies". Fill-ins. They can also be used for actual NPCs, but people to put into a bar, and people to put into a marketplace. Both low-class, mid-class and upper class. And several races. Yes, many cities are mostly human, but some cities aren't, and even the human cities often crawls with other races too. Even races outside the normal elf and dwarf. So, in summary, I'd like to have a heavy list of NPCs, with great amount of work.... So basically, there's just to start in an end.

Leif Egil R. said: Well, I want a lot more options of townsfolk in different races. As it is now, there's mostly human NPCs, and I'd love to be able to pick between several bartenders, several maids, several blacksmiths, several nobles, and what lacks most, I think, is just simple "nobodies". Fill-ins. They can also be used for actual NPCs, but people to put into a bar, and people to put into a marketplace. Both low-class, mid-class and upper class. And several races. Yes, many cities are mostly human, but some cities aren't, and even the human cities often crawls with other races too. Even races outside the normal elf and dwarf. So, in summary, I'd like to have a heavy list of NPCs, with great amount of work.... So basically, there's just to start in an end. Pretty much this. There are a lot of different monsters even a decent amount of soldiers but just common non-combat NPCs are scarce, especially females. Also wizards/sorcerers/etc who really look like one. Of course this is system dependent since in normal D&D they look exactly the same as everyone else (only with different equipments) but eg Warhammer wizards can easily be identified just based on their looks.

@Leif Egil R. This. Even having such icons in multiple colors as the only differentiation (hair color, skin color, clothes color) would be good, It makes it easier as then you can tag people in certain colors to belong to houses or factions. The random people are the big thing. Labourers, barmaids, butlers, maids, travellers, tribesmen/natives, whores/prostitutes, beggars, children...

I agree that we could use a lot more villager-types. When you're running a game, your players will pick one avatar to represent their character and then use it continually. However, they are constantly interacting with NPCs, many of whom are merchants, craftsmen, laborers or just plain farmers and peasants. When you have only 1 or 2 icons in your library to represent those types of people, it gets dull pretty quickly. And as someone else said, we could use more demi-human villager types, not just Humans. Speaking of demi-humans, it seems to me that there is a surprising lack of Halfling icons available, both adventuring class & commoners. What I've had to do in Roll20 is take a human icon and shrink it down to a much smaller size in order to represent a Halfling. But it still doesn't really look like a Halfling, it looks like a miniature human. As for style, I like yours and Devin Night's technique. I like top-down icons created in such a way that you can still see facial features. Some icon series, all you can see is the part in their hair...

But it still doesn't really look like a Halfling, it looks like a miniature human. Shrink it to 2/3 and then slightly lower the vertical axis.

Thanks for all the replies. Based on this feedback, I'm going to try to have a set of human tokens with a notable focus on townsfolk available by the end of this week.  There will of course be some adventurer and combat oriented miniatures in the set, but I've definitely taken the time to add in a variety of just regular people (whom I suppose could also represent combatants) from the poor to the wealthy including a few color schemes to allow GMs to differentiate different groups/houses if so desired. I won't really have any hybrids in this initial set.  They're such a huge category that I think they're best included in sets based on the appropriate species (ie: half-orcs in an orc set, half-elves in an elf set).  But certainly I will be sure to include such hybrids in future sets. If anyone has any last minute suggestions, please let me know :)

Phillip W. said: Thanks for all the replies. Based on this feedback, I'm going to try to have a set of human tokens with a notable focus on townsfolk available by the end of this week.  There will of course be some adventurer and combat oriented miniatures in the set, but I've definitely taken the time to add in a variety of just regular people (whom I suppose could also represent combatants) from the poor to the wealthy including a few color schemes to allow GMs to differentiate different groups/houses if so desired. If it appears in the marketplace, I will certainly purchase. Adventurers and monsters I got, but I can always use more commoners.

What I've been trying to find is western themed topview tokens. I'm working on a western campaign board and it is hard to find the needed tokens.

That begs another front, and that is Era. Many fantasy settings have a wide variety of eras and countries they're based on... it could be Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian, Elizabethan, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, African, South American... In the last century fashion has adjusted drastically from styles as you see in the Great Gatsby to Disco polyester and hippies to current fashion... Might be something else to consider. Victorian would be a good set to do as it works for old and classy as well as steampunk campaigns.

Okay, the set is now live. I've created some extra tokens too, which I hope to add to the Deep Dungeons packs at some point in the coming week along with a few other assets that folks have suggested as well.  When that happens I'll probably post a separate thread to note it.

I'm running a Star Wars: Saga Edition campaign, so some Star Wars "inspired" tokens would be really cool. Phillip, your Galactic Grunts set has some really great tokens. Could you make any more with paladins wearing robes rather than armor? Also some robots would be really awesome.