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<blockquote data-quote="FreeTheSlaves" data-source="post: 3178990" data-attributes="member: 9952">Well now, what am I doing at the moment in my game? My, I think I am running a dmpc. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ok, the background was that a current player was dm'ing RttToEE until part of it got too much for him. My character had been the central hub figure that had sought out the others to recruit them to the quest. (It was very cool to do that, as each character was chased &amp; wooed because of their talents.)Anyway, said player needs a break so I dm, right. Now it doesn't make much sense to remove my character nor do I want to remove him because I want to and will be a player again.So I run him like I do a pc where the player can't make it:* I've got a brief combat card for battle,* He'll be played in combat by another (trustworthy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) player* He earns 1/2 xp but full treasure,* His main powers get used as required (i.e. diplomacy+20) but lesser skills are sidelined, and* He contributes less detail to roleplaying and more summary. He &amp; his cohort can place a drag on my attention span so that has to be managed, no two ways about that. But this is pretty much the deal - if he has to go when I dm then I'll choose to be a player. Certainly if I was going to start a campaign I wouldn't have made such a character, and the original dm didn't. However situations change so we adapt.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FreeTheSlaves, post: 3178990, member: 9952"] Well now, what am I doing at the moment in my game? My, I think I am running a dmpc. :) Ok, the background was that a current player was dm'ing RttToEE until part of it got too much for him. My character had been the central hub figure that had sought out the others to recruit them to the quest. (It was very cool to do that, as each character was chased & wooed because of their talents.) Anyway, said player needs a break so I dm, right. Now it doesn't make much sense to remove my character nor do I want to remove him because I want to and will be a player again. So I run him like I do a pc where the player can't make it: * I've got a brief combat card for battle, * He'll be played in combat by another (trustworthy ;)) player * He earns 1/2 xp but full treasure, * His main powers get used as required (i.e. diplomacy+20) but lesser skills are sidelined, and * He contributes less detail to roleplaying and more summary. He & his cohort can place a drag on my attention span so that has to be managed, no two ways about that. But this is pretty much the deal - if he has to go when I dm then I'll choose to be a player. Certainly if I was going to start a campaign I wouldn't have made such a character, and the original dm didn't. However situations change so we adapt. [/QUOTE]

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