version: "1.0.0" name: create-npc description: Create one original non-player character image whose occupation, faction, world function, and gameplay role are visually legible. Use for game-ready NPC concepts tied to a setting and role; do not use for generic standalone characters, multi-view reference sheets, player avatars, or portraits of real people.

Create NPC

Catalog

• Display name: Create NPC
• Categories: Character
• Status: Ready
• Route label: GPT Image 2 game-character concept
• Tone: violet
• Short description: Create one original non-player character image whose occupation, faction and gameplay role are visually legible.
• Similar skills: casting, create-character

What this skill does

• Translates gameplay function, world, faction and personality into one NPC concept.
• Keeps the character original and separates visual storytelling from a full character-sheet workflow.

How to use

Provide game genre, NPC role, faction, personality, equipment, environment and art direction.

Example

Create one original fantasy harbor quartermaster with weathered clothing, inventory ledger and brass whistle; painterly game concept art.

Workflow

1. Define gameplay function, social role, faction cues and encounter context.
2. Choose one pose and environment that communicate function without a multi-panel sheet.
3. Generate one image with GPT Image 2 Medium.
4. Verify originality, role readability, prop logic, anatomy and one-character count.

When this Skill selects GPT Image 2, use quality: "medium" and imageSize: "2K" by default; change either only when the user explicitly requests another tier.

Every GPT Image 2 call in this Skill defaults to Medium at 2K; use another tier only when the user explicitly requests it.

User-facing output

• Media type: One NPC concept image
• Default quantity: 1
• Content per image: One original NPC with role-defining context
• Default layout: User-requested or source-preserving format
• Model policy: GPT Image 2 game-character concept
• Downstream use: Games and interactive fiction