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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6777225" data-attributes="member: 6701872">If that line of reasoning is applied consistently to characters found labelled as NPCs in RPG setting products, there would be no characters labelled as NPCs outside of "this farmer farms, that's all he cares about" sorts.The setting does not present this detail as a moral conundrum.As for dilution of protagonism... sure, it is true that having NPCs to align and associate your PC with does mean some measure of dilution - but there is also a measure of increased assimilation with the setting. Having NPCs to align and associate with is what turns an otherwise generic character that could exist as-is within any campaign setting into a character that belongs in this campaign setting.I mean, a knight is knight and could come from any campaign setting, but a purple dragon knight is a Forgotten Realms character. (Sorry for the non-Eberron example... haven't cracked an Eberron book for some number of years and can't really bring to mind any appropriately illustrative example from within the setting.)</blockquote>