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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 399986" data-attributes="member: 3887">Spawned from the seemingly endless DoVD/Comparative Morals 101-102 thread, comes my first thread start. Please join in...Someone {SJ maybe} suggested that DM's don't identify as closely {or at all} with the NPC's they create as players do with their PC's. This struck me as odd, since I do. Obviously not with an entire world-spanning motley of characters, but certainly with some. This has a bit to with me being primarily a DM. But mostly I think it's just something that comes naturally out of the creative process. Part of you ends up in what you create, no matter what you intend for the NPC and what use you put him/her to. Part of it comes from the drive to create good, vibrant NPC's for your players to play with. I think that alone fuels a sense of identification, as you attempt to flesh out complex, real-seeming motivations and personalities.Then of course there is the pride angle.So what do you all think? Do you as DM's just push peices on an imaginary board? Do you indentify with some of your NPC's? If so, how much? As much as your own PC's {with me it's more so...}. Is said indentification useful and/or neccessary for the creation of really top-notch NPC's?</blockquote>