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<blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 3619985" data-attributes="member: 5278">In the first campaign I DMed, I had a recurring character that would fit in well in this tavern. IMC, the PCs always bumped into him whenever they visited a place they hadn't been to before; and every time they met him, he had started a new career (i.e. picked up a level of new class). He was always real eager to learn new stuff, but quickly lost interest. He ended up as a ftr/rog/rng/monk/clr (IIRC) - with one level of each. To my surprise he got the PCs really wondering (and worrying) about what weird, secret scheme he was really up to. How could it be that he always managed to know where they were going, and how did manage to always be there before them? (Typical player meta-thinking of course; everything is always about them. When something strange happens&nbsp; there is no way it could simply be a coincidence that it happens around them! It took them a long time to realise that his part in the story was no more than a bit of harmless comic relief.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Instead of always bumping into him every time the PCs come to new town, he could make infrequent (but more or less regular) visits to the in. Always with a new story tell, about how he visited this new place and met some new friends who thought him these really interesting things...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jolly Giant, post: 3619985, member: 5278"] In the first campaign I DMed, I had a recurring character that would fit in well in this tavern. IMC, the PCs always bumped into him whenever they visited a place they hadn't been to before; and every time they met him, he had started a new career (i.e. picked up a level of new class). He was always real eager to learn new stuff, but quickly lost interest. He ended up as a ftr/rog/rng/monk/clr (IIRC) - with one level of each. To my surprise he got the PCs really wondering (and worrying) about what weird, secret scheme he was [I]really [/I] up to. How could it be that he always managed to know where they were going, and how did manage to always be there before them? (Typical player meta-thinking of course; everything is always about [I]them[/I]. When something strange happens there is no way it could simply be a coincidence that it happens around [I]them[/I]! It took them a long time to realise that his part in the story was no more than a bit of harmless comic relief. :p Instead of always bumping into him every time the PCs come to new town, he could make infrequent (but more or less regular) visits to the in. Always with a new story tell, about how he visited this new place and met some new friends who thought him these really interesting things... [/QUOTE]

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