I've written up a new NPC for Cutters, Maegoshel the glabrezu shopkeeper. I wasn't aiming at making a unique, ingenious NPC to blow everyone away with my creativity, but rather just write up one very specific, fully detailed character. Hopefully, DMs will find that method more useful in everyday campaigning.
I'm asking what people think of him here in this post, since he made his grand debut during the Tempest of Codes.
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We should really have a site section for non-metaplot, everyday NPCs like this. The Common Gallery, or something like that. They're usually more useful than a 5-page document on Esteban and all the PTC machinations...
The thing about NPCs like Maegoshel is all the details are usually wasted. Before the PCs tumble to the chant, you can't mention them; when they do find out who he really is, they don't want to know them.
I think that a disguized glabrezu salesman would fit better into a Prime city. In the Cage, there's little drama involved when he is unveiled - "Oh... a glabrezu? How quaint...".
Even the disguise itself makes less sense, since he should find enough shoppers (if not more) even if he dropped it; they're devious mortal-corrupters, so what? In the Cage, that spells "he's got the goods" rather than "pitchforks and holy flames".
Nice touch on the night hag contact and dream-invade revenge option.