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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6777198" data-attributes="member: 6701872">No, in the context of comparing RPGs and novels there are numerous reasons why the comparison always breaks down. In this case, the breakdown is that novels don't actually have PC-equivalent characters, not even among the protagonists because everything that can be pointed to as evidence of their being a PC can point to a known NPC in a role-playing game setting being a PC, especially "well, there is a story in which she is a protagonist and does things that have a lasting impact on the world around her," since basically every role-playing game setting is bursting with NPCs of which the same is true. Example: Corellon Larethian took out Gruumsh's eye, banished Lolth and cursed the dark elves, plus a bunch of other stuff I read about in stories about him and his friends... but he is only a PC if I am running "let's play through that one story we already know the end of" or "let's play that established character in this new scenario I made up", much like Hermione would only be a PC in a Potterverse RPG if I am running one of the stories already told in the novels, or something along the lines of "let's play through some stuff that happened to Hermione between the final chapter of the last book and it's epilogue." Otherwise both are NPCs because they are part of the setting as presented by it's author, not added by me and my friends around the game table.</blockquote>

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