Do we (awaits the beatings) need a n00b school?

[Meatwad]

You don't want a newbie school, yet you want to force a newbie to talk to this NPC about every topic?  I would hate that.  Make it optional, and since it would be teaching newbies, it isn't much of a stretch to call it a newbie school of sorts, ShaLeah.

[Trenidor]

I absolutely hate talking NPCs. I don't ever use them on arm, nor will I ever. I rather use my own wordings to RP with npcs, never by what they say.

I think they'd give off the wrong impression to a noob if they were talking to a NPC, they might get the idea that all NPCs talk (or that they are PCs)