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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MisterWhodat" data-source="post: 3818519" data-attributes="member: 55077">The idea that a game world, in this case the Forgotten Realms, can not be run effectively because of uber NPC's is a cop out.  I and another DM share a game, and we have been doing so for going on ten years, all in the Realms.  I can count on one hand the amount of times we have run across an uber character from the novels.  Until our characters get to high levels most might not even have heard of them.  Sure in our Silver Marches game most of the players had heard of Drizzt, but none of us ever met him.  In a Waterdeep campaign, we actually did go to ask The Blackstaff for help but were turned away very rudely, putting the onus on the party to get the problem solved.  The point is, no matter which side you take in this there are any number of ways to use the novel characters, or not to.  I am in the middle of the second book in the Twilight War series, and there is a paladin of Lathander that I think would make a cool NPC, not to overrun the party but to add flavor to a setting.  I agreed with an earlier post that said why read the book if it's not canon and affecting the game world, but on the flip of that if I don't care for the book I just don't allow it to be canon in my version of the Realms.  There is room for everyone in this argument I just wanted to throw my nickel into the fountain.  Can’t wait to see the end result, I hope the good far outweighs the bad.</blockquote>

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