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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 6033223" data-attributes="member: 5868"><p>Megadittoes to the majority of the above. DMPCs need to be killed with fire.</p><p></p><p>I've played under several different DMs who have tried DMPCs, and not a single one could pull it off. In three different cases, the DMPC became the *star* of the game, got preferential treatment, and subtracted time the DM should have been using to prepare the game while the DM discussed with the players what his PC should do for his next level, what shopping trip his PC would go on, etc. In one case, it contributed to a player revolt after five games that resulted in the DM being removed, to the benefit of all -- I'd name names, as the individual in question was once an EN World poster, but prefer not to speak ill of the dead.</p><p></p><p>A temporarily plot-essential NPC, a cleric who is there to provide some healing to the party but otherwise fades into the background, or other approaches to NPCs who do not cross the line into "PC" are fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 6033223, member: 5868"] Megadittoes to the majority of the above. DMPCs need to be killed with fire. I've played under several different DMs who have tried DMPCs, and not a single one could pull it off. In three different cases, the DMPC became the *star* of the game, got preferential treatment, and subtracted time the DM should have been using to prepare the game while the DM discussed with the players what his PC should do for his next level, what shopping trip his PC would go on, etc. In one case, it contributed to a player revolt after five games that resulted in the DM being removed, to the benefit of all -- I'd name names, as the individual in question was once an EN World poster, but prefer not to speak ill of the dead. A temporarily plot-essential NPC, a cleric who is there to provide some healing to the party but otherwise fades into the background, or other approaches to NPCs who do not cross the line into "PC" are fine. [/QUOTE]
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