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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3179805" data-attributes="member: 9037">I think what you are missing is not that the NPC helps in the battle or helps solve the puzzles it's that he does it all the time and better than the PCs. That's scene stealing. The DMPC when in battle hits harder than the party fighter when he tosses magic he is better than the party mage ect ect its great to have help. But the DMPC should not always be better than the party. Its great when an party npc can help solve a puzzle that has the party stumped it helps move the game along but when he solves ot becase he has info that he didn't share or he solves before giving the party a chance to then that is scene stealing.As for players not speaking up I think part of that is what I like to term players guilt. They know that the dM has put a lot of work into the game and are loathe to complain about it. They don't want to upset their friend.And sometimes some people feel that a bad game is better than no game and they are afraid that if they complain to the DM they will be kicked out of the group or they have a DM who is oversenstive and reacts badly to any thought that he might have made a bad call or is doing something wrong.And I have played in a lot of games and have found that yes there are selfish players and because their are more of them than DMs the law of averages say that there will be more  selfish players than DMs but I have seen selfish judgemental DMs so unlike you just because you sit behind the screen I won't cut the DM anymore slack than I will a player.As I have said before you can't have the game without both DMs and players. I have heard many times that the advice that is you have a bad DM walk away from the game. But it is also true of DMs if you have bad selfish players walk away stop playing the abused DM and walk away.</blockquote>

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