As mentioned in the wiki, interactable NPCS are Non-playable characters that can be interacted, more or less, with and appears in the game. NPCs are characters/creatures/monsters that add contrast to the game's lore where they provide information, some are categorized as quest givers, while others are categorized as Merchants whom you can trade with or request for certain services.

There are currently just over 100 for act 1 of BG3.

As a loose contrast, there are over 800 in BG2 (base game, without counting in mods...).

I really hope things quick up a notch for the next acts! Quality is great. But I wouldn't mind simpler NPCs here and there to make the world feel more alive.

Last edited by Count Turnipsome; 31/05/23 01:33 AM.
It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..