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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2673132" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>Voted <em>No, PC's are special</em> but there isn't actually an option that's appropriate. The PC's follow the rules for PC's and are seldom allowed to flagrantly exceed those rules. As a matter of course it's best to have NPC's following the same rules if not actually more limited in what they do. PC's are supposed to be special. The entire game is about THEM. But as DM I do not consider myself bound for any reason whatsoever to stick to those same rules when it comes to creating and running NPC's. The rules are NOT there to RESTRICT what I can do as DM.</p><p></p><p>That gives DM's a LOT of power and DM's are known to abuse that power from time to time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> but not letting NPC's do something new, interesting, and UNAVAILABLE to PC's? How dull is that? I'd rather have the PC's fight Ninjas throughout a campaign and never have a PC allowed to become one than to feel obligated to allow PC Ninjas as soon as I introduce Ninjas as a class/organization in the campaign and have to tone down or lose all the mystique and <em>imbalanced</em> powers as a result. If I want Sloth Monks then I'll have Sloth Monks - but that doesn't mean I should let PC's play a Sloth!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 2673132, member: 32740"] Voted [I]No, PC's are special[/I] but there isn't actually an option that's appropriate. The PC's follow the rules for PC's and are seldom allowed to flagrantly exceed those rules. As a matter of course it's best to have NPC's following the same rules if not actually more limited in what they do. PC's are supposed to be special. The entire game is about THEM. But as DM I do not consider myself bound for any reason whatsoever to stick to those same rules when it comes to creating and running NPC's. The rules are NOT there to RESTRICT what I can do as DM. That gives DM's a LOT of power and DM's are known to abuse that power from time to time :) but not letting NPC's do something new, interesting, and UNAVAILABLE to PC's? How dull is that? I'd rather have the PC's fight Ninjas throughout a campaign and never have a PC allowed to become one than to feel obligated to allow PC Ninjas as soon as I introduce Ninjas as a class/organization in the campaign and have to tone down or lose all the mystique and [I]imbalanced[/I] powers as a result. If I want Sloth Monks then I'll have Sloth Monks - but that doesn't mean I should let PC's play a Sloth! [/QUOTE]
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