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I prefer the term "freebooter" myself :D

My experience is 3.0/3.5/PF1e, so I have no idea how this would work if you play 5e. But here's what I'd probably do for this unique NPC: 1. Build the NPC as he was in life before becoming undead 2. Convert to undead as the pertinent ruleset lay it out (HD, and hp are a little different) 3...

I don't understand what's going on here.

Maybe the elves are in decline, and their power is but a shadow of their former level?

Raiding a city is actually much easier to run for PCs IMHO. Any raid is going to involve some sort of infiltration or surprise attack on a critical location. These are perfect places for PCs to shine. A series of encounters could go something like 1. Arrival by Water: longboats slip in...

Whether divine or arcane, the base creature needs to be an 11th level caster, so either way the CR is the same. Granted, going from Cleric to Lich is probably not quite the power bump as Wizard to Lich, but at least on paper its "the same".

D&D 3.5, Liber Mortis had a a template called Necropolitan "...Necropolitans are humanoids who renounce life and embrace undeath in a special ritual called the Ritual of Crucimigration..." It was essentially a template to create an undead version of some humanoid with class levels. The...

There's a reason that's a futile debate. Because HP aren't really anything but a game construct.

This really seems like the end game of this thread. I've always thought CON was the "hp" stat to provide another choice in character creating. Some folks don't want CON for hp because hey, why use CON when you can use some other prime stat? Even more optimization possibilities then it seems...

To me, once you get past the point of an individual surviving a very small number of hits from a reasonably competent warrior, hit points are a pure abstraction. They exist so the game can be played at higher levels. Anything more is flavor text. So I see no reason why you can't use some...

Another fantastic session, where the PCs burst in on an illicit Underdark deal in progress between a band of Duegar and a Half-Troll with hobgoblin and goblin minions. Having obtained critical information from previous sessions, the party Swashbuckler leapt into the room and promptly used a...

After poor Malcom Anders, I'll never look at a Ring of Regeneration the same way again. Great update!

Nothing needs to change. I’ve had all sorts of gaming experiences using various iterations of D&D tiles where there was very little “dungeon crawling”. All of these games featured fairly heavy doses of combat, just not much dungeon delving. If one was planning to run a game far more focused...

This is the real point IMHO. There is no reason whatsoever for a GMPC to be in a game. Need a role filled? NPCs, Henchmen, hirelings, extra characters, etc. The only reason a GMPC will be in a group is because the GM wants to run the game AND play in it at the same time.

I didn’t ask your ideal situation, I asked if PCs and NPCs being equal in all ways was the norm at most D&D games.

so your position is in most D&D games there’s absolutely no difference between PCs and NPCs?

my statement has nothing to do with in game and everything to do with out of game. A PC is treated differently than every other NPC in the world by other PCs due to the social contract. A party deciding they don’t want an NPC around is far different than a party deciding they want a PC to...

Spot on. It has everything to do with accessibility and nothing to do with the canniness of the valley. Generic D&D is incredibly easy to access. Certain D&D settings with more to process than just “here’s Viking land, here’s Egypt Land, here’s Ninja&Samurai Land, here’s etc”require more...

I think that poster is still active, so if there’s a way to tag users in a thread he could respond..,,

These sorts of NPCs are great. They provide a useful addition to the party, an additional source of roleplaying but don’t stand on the same tier as the PCs. I use thus dirt if character all the time. But there is zero expectation of my GMHenchmen to stick around. If the players are tired of...