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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Socrates" data-source="post: 2923582" data-attributes="member: 10714">I run two games of two players, in my Final Fantasy game. Each game has a DMPC (I suppose that's what he is); one has a dual-wielding swordsman named Aidan Denun, and the other has an athletic dragoon named Champ Justice. Aidan rounds out the swordsman/mage group as a hybrid character, able to join the swordsman in acrobatic feats of derring-do, or toss out Cura spells when things get rough. In the battle summoner/gunner group, Champ is the melee fighter who keeps big enemies from smacking the ranged fighters across the globe. Both of them exist primarily to fill holes in the party. I don't give them any preferential treatment. Honestly, they get it a lot rougher. I take care of their gear last, I don't plan encounters that really show off what they can do in the same way that I plan encounters for the PCs, and they tend to be the guinea pigs for a cool villain (like the T-Rexaur biting Aidan and flinging him through a tree, or Champ getting blasted out of the sky by a four-armed gun-wielding villain). Neither party feels anything other than love for the character, too, both in-and-out of character. One group is installing Aidan as a governor to get the public on their side, and the other group detoured off the main plot willingly (and despite my actual protests) to defend Champ's father from an assassin.In my next game, I don't plan on having DMPCs, though, mostly because it's yet another sheet to track in combat. That gets time-consuming, especially with multiple villains. Too much time goes between the PCs' actions.</blockquote>

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