NPC Gallery #3: The Informant

Given that most games are inherently investigative in nature, it’s not at all far fetched to peg the Informant as one of the most important NPCs that a party of player characters can run into.  Informants come from a wide range of backgrounds, and most campaigns rely on more than a singular informant in the setting.  Even campaigns built as straightforward dungeon hacks have the ubiquitous Barkeep serving this role, even if just to tell the party where the next dungeon is.