Character · from book 3
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.
First appears: Book 3
Series arc
Through book 5
Herot's advice on choosing few, competent companions (B5 ch. 24) and on waking elites (B5 ch. 63) guides Carl; two notes print — a taxonomy of three castle types (B5 ch. 54) and the trolley-and-pebble image for derailing an NPC (B5 ch. 56).
Through book 3
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 (B3 ch. 17).
Through book 4
Carl slogs through the essay; Herot's warning that the NPCs who know they are in a dungeon are the more dangerous kind frames his reading of the changelings who want to reach the sixth floor (B4 ch. 10).
In the Cookbook
Author of the 16th edition, known from the narration at B3 ch. 17. 2 notes in the text so far: B5 ch. 54, 56. The register of every edition is on the Cookbook.
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | 1/35 | Ch. 17 · the book's own page |
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 1/35 | Ch. 10 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 5/78 | Ch. 5, Ch. 24, Ch. 54, Ch. 56, Ch. 63 · the book's own page |
By book
Herot in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
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).
Herot in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
Carl slogs through the essay; Herot's warning that the NPCs who know they are in a dungeon are the more dangerous kind frames his reading of the changelings who want to reach the sixth floor (ch. 10).