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<blockquote data-quote="carpedavid" data-source="post: 2330753" data-attributes="member: 6971">One of the worst DMing behaviors that I've ever seen is the &quot;pet NPC.&quot; Usually, this NPC is at least a few levels higher than any of the characters, privy to information that the characters are not, the &quot;leader&quot; of the group, and unusually &quot;lucky.&quot;This NPC is the one that saves the day, gets the glory, takes the magical McGuffin for himself, and is the center of the story. One particularly egregious example:In a Spycraft game, the NPC was, in fact, two levels higher than all of the characters. He was the leader and got to call the shots. The DM wanted the NPC to have a pair of Desert Eagle pistols, but couldn't afford it, based upon how much money the NPC was supposed to have.He, therefore, gave one of the enemy NPCs, who the PCs were supposed to kill, a pair of Desert Eagles. Unfortunatly for him, one of the characters claimed the guns, once the enemy was dead. He then had the temerity to demand that the PC hand the guns over to his NPC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="carpedavid, post: 2330753, member: 6971"] One of the worst DMing behaviors that I've ever seen is the "pet NPC." Usually, this NPC is at least a few levels higher than any of the characters, privy to information that the characters are not, the "leader" of the group, and unusually "lucky." This NPC is the one that saves the day, gets the glory, takes the magical McGuffin for himself, and is the center of the story. One particularly egregious example: In a Spycraft game, the NPC was, in fact, two levels higher than all of the characters. He was the leader and got to call the shots. The DM wanted the NPC to have a pair of Desert Eagle pistols, but couldn't afford it, based upon how much money the NPC was supposed to have. He, therefore, gave one of the enemy NPCs, who the PCs were supposed to kill, a pair of Desert Eagles. Unfortunatly for him, one of the characters claimed the guns, once the enemy was dead. He then had the temerity to demand that the PC hand the guns over to his NPC. [/QUOTE]

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