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<blockquote data-quote="Priest_Sidran" data-source="post: 3484622" data-attributes="member: 30857">It might sound hard, but give him a few NPC'sI ran a one on one game for a long time, and the harder challange is making him stay within the context of a balanced game. It is hard to fight the urge to give him something which will balance him out with the ickies your throughing at him, but it is a necessity. A single added NPC of his level or lower by one would help balance the danger of killing him every combat. At least if you fudge sometimes in his favor on your dice rolls. The other thing is that if you somehow do kill him, let it stick, most players would be let down by a death but it builds a more wise player in the end. A neat trick when making NPC's is give them a back story which creates new adventure hooks, that will not make the PC a backup character. A good way of doing this is to get the NPC into a fix, and have the PC help them get out of it. The PC would take charge in this case, and the NPC would still be relegated to the background. The More NPC's the harder it gets to run the game, and keep track of everything. Another method (if the player is not a new player) is to let them make and run more than one character at a time, which saves you (as DM) the trouble of running more than one NPC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Priest_Sidran, post: 3484622, member: 30857"] It might sound hard, but give him a few NPC's I ran a one on one game for a long time, and the harder challange is making him stay within the context of a balanced game. It is hard to fight the urge to give him something which will balance him out with the ickies your throughing at him, but it is a necessity. A single added NPC of his level or lower by one would help balance the danger of killing him every combat. At least if you fudge sometimes in his favor on your dice rolls. The other thing is that if you somehow do kill him, let it stick, most players would be let down by a death but it builds a more wise player in the end. A neat trick when making NPC's is give them a back story which creates new adventure hooks, that will not make the PC a backup character. A good way of doing this is to get the NPC into a fix, and have the PC help them get out of it. The PC would take charge in this case, and the NPC would still be relegated to the background. The More NPC's the harder it gets to run the game, and keep track of everything. Another method (if the player is not a new player) is to let them make and run more than one character at a time, which saves you (as DM) the trouble of running more than one NPC. [/QUOTE]

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