Character · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Herot
Author of the Cookbook's 16th edition, whose long essay at the back of the book — the 'Worn Path Method' — argues that quests and puzzles go easier when you deliberately break the fourth wall and wake the NPCs.
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Carl finds Herot's long essay at the back of the Cookbook and its 'Worn Path Method' — break the NPCs out of their reverie, be kind but firm — and has read only its first paragraphs (ch. 17).