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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3177150" data-attributes="member: 9037">So just because you run the game gives you the right to suck all the fun out of it for everybody else?Using your example a badly run DMPC is like inviting your friends over to a karoke party and never once allowing them to have the mike. They are forced to sit there and watch you preform.I have been in games where DMs have had NPCs join the party and it was great even when I had the sneaking suspicion that the NPC was a character that the DM really wanted to play. What made it work is that they were a part of the party and&nbsp; we never felt that we just there to play back up to the NPC.&nbsp; They could die just as easily as one of us they didn't have all the answers and they never tried to lead the party.But they were a pleasure to have a around they often spoke just the right words to help us solve the puzzle that we couldn't figure out on our own.A good DMPC needs to be played with a subtle hand. I have also been in game where I wanted to strangle the DMPC and the DM. One example is we were trying to figure out a poem that a bad guy had left. We worked on it and thought we had it figured out but we wrong because we were missing one vital piece of infomation that the DMPC knew and held back so he was the one that solved the puzzle we never had a chance because we didn't know all the facts.Nobody likes playing in a game where they never get any spotlight or a chance to shine where you are nothing but a cohort regardless if its another PC doing it or DMPC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 3177150, member: 9037"] So just because you run the game gives you the right to suck all the fun out of it for everybody else? Using your example a badly run DMPC is like inviting your friends over to a karoke party and never once allowing them to have the mike. They are forced to sit there and watch you preform. I have been in games where DMs have had NPCs join the party and it was great even when I had the sneaking suspicion that the NPC was a character that the DM really wanted to play. What made it work is that they were a part of the party and we never felt that we just there to play back up to the NPC. They could die just as easily as one of us they didn't have all the answers and they never tried to lead the party. But they were a pleasure to have a around they often spoke just the right words to help us solve the puzzle that we couldn't figure out on our own. A good DMPC needs to be played with a subtle hand. I have also been in game where I wanted to strangle the DMPC and the DM. One example is we were trying to figure out a poem that a bad guy had left. We worked on it and thought we had it figured out but we wrong because we were missing one vital piece of infomation that the DMPC knew and held back so he was the one that solved the puzzle we never had a chance because we didn't know all the facts. Nobody likes playing in a game where they never get any spotlight or a chance to shine where you are nothing but a cohort regardless if its another PC doing it or DMPC [/QUOTE]

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