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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 2923533" data-attributes="member: 6779">Generally speaking, I end up with inadvertant party NPCs, from the players picking up somebody along the way and then insisting that they come along. (One NPC in my old Star Wars campaign, whose whole story reason for existing was to beef up the party long enough for them to escape the prison they were in and then get killed off, they moved Heaven and Earth to keep alive because they liked him so much. So I had him join the group and he eventually married one of the PCs.)When I include an NPC with the intention of having them be "my character," they are always support types -- a monk/cleric in my current game, for instance, whose job is to heal the characters in emergencies, and grapple enemy spellcasters the rest of the time. A GM character in the game I play in was a lumbering meatshield in plate mail who wasn't real bright, but was very loyal; he was another great instance.On the flipside, I have encountered the Mary Sue -- it's very annoying. Femme barbarian of the chainmail bikini variety with multiple attacks per round (when the rest of us are 3rd level), who "rescued" the rest of the party from a band of brigands that we weren't really having any trouble with and therefore expected us to fall over ourselves with gratitude .... it wasn't pretty.However, it was at a convention with some guy I'd never met before and don't expect to meet again -- so I'd hardly think of it as typical.-The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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