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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dichotomy" data-source="post: 3170046" data-attributes="member: 12941">Alright.  Thanks for the input by all.I'm going to go with the DMPC, at least for the time being.  o3 and michael_noah seem to clearly have a preference for the DMPC.  Honestly, so do I, for all the reasons stated, and probably some more.  The DMPC is also the less... ummm... permanent, perhaps, of a change.  If the DMPC thing doesn't seem to be working for us, we can phase it out and look for a 5th.  We'd even be able to keep playing until we found the 5th.I know that Ti and worthley disagree with this solution, but I don't know what else to do about it (since I don't think any of us are going to convince the others, and we can't just talk about it forever).The bottom line for me is the flake issue.  There are certainly ways to minimize it, even more than I did in the first go-around.  But basically, I don't want to risk it.  Maybe I'm overly sensitive.  Maybe I'm just bitter because nearly all of my experiences had ended badly (and even the games I'm currently in appear to be circling the toilet bowl, so to speak).  But if we found someone, and that person "flaked," I would be totally irate (almost certainly to an irrational degree).  I think my perception of both the likelihood of getting a flake and the damage that having a flake would cause is just greater than Ti or worthley attribute.Bottom-bottom line: Yeah, having a solid 5th real player would be great.  Having a DMPC wouldn't be as good.  Getting a flake would bother me to such a degree that I'm willing to "settle" rather than roll the dice.  The "calculus of risk" just cuts in favor of a DMPC for me.Worthley, don't feel like you need to make a specific type of character to fill the missing party role.  If you want to be a warrior, go ahead, but if you don't, I'll fill the gap.</blockquote>

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