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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4190383" data-attributes="member: 1879">If you're going to keep feeding them NPC defenders, stop making them secondary characters. I'm not suggesting you hand them a party level +5 DMNPC, but give them a real full share, votes his mind party member who pulls his weight and then some.Let me tell you about the most fun "defender" style character I've played in 3e. He's Devon the Bronze Knight. He's a Knight 1/Bronze Dragon Shaman X. He fights in full plate with sword and board. The Improved shield bash and Agile shield fighter feats let him keep up the damage, while maxing out his AC. He usually keeps up the Energy Shield aura in a fight unless a PC gets badly damaged when he'll switch to healing. He also likes to keep up the energy shield while traveling for the "bug zapper" effect.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Between the Energy aura causing foes to take damage with each blow they land and his own combat skills he lags behind no one in damage output. And his ability to breath underwater was the sole factor that allowed our party to escape from an evil cult at one point. Style wise Devon was a riot. He wore brightly polished bronzed armour and was an absolutely forthright and bold warrior. When the rogue wanted to sneak into the bad guys camp Devon distracted them by riding up and demanding their surrender. He'd challange the biggest baddy any time any place. He kept the party alive, and we stilll talk about how much fun he was. He was nobodies chump.</blockquote>

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