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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmartkdr2" data-source="post: 8164190" data-attributes="member: 7017304">I've done it before in 4e and 5e. Oddly, we didn't really do it in 1e, but we had a lot of players and could slap together a new pc pretty quickly.I have found that allowing multiple pc's per player is the best way to get the pc count up when the player count is low. If you only have 2 players, 2 pcs per is better than 2 pcs and 2 npcs in the party. (the dm is busy enough as it is) With 3 players that brings you to 6 pcs - which is better for certain dming styles than 3 pcs. 4 pcs is usually enough, though, so at four players we usually stop doing that. Since 4e works best at 4-5 pc's, getting closer to that number is usually worth the added effort. 5e is a little more forgiving about pc's counts, but 3-6 is still the sweet spot. I have noticed that some people can handle 2 pc's with no drop-off in how well they play them, and some people find juggling 2 pc's really hard - but this does not correlate to how well they handle one character in the first place. ie They might struggle with the rules, but not any worse when there's twice as many rules, (which surprised me). Some people find switching between roleplaying two characters hard and other have no difficulty - and this also did not correlate to how 'well' they roleplay either. It's just a different skill.</blockquote>