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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7084729" data-attributes="member: 23751">This is not correct.&nbsp; The NPCs do exercise that power over events.&nbsp; They do it through the DM who has created the personality, desires and goals, quirks, etc. for that NPC and puts himself into the NPC's shoes to make that decision.&nbsp; When I make a decision for an NPC, I am not making a decision for myself at all.&nbsp; The NPC may decide to take a course that I myself would not take were I to make the same decision on my own.&nbsp; The same presumably applies to PCs.&nbsp; The players ought to be making the decisions that their PCs would make, and not the ones that the players just feel like making without any thought about the PCs goals and motivations.No.&nbsp; I am in fact seeing the advisor as having his own agenda.Correct.&nbsp; I get you view it as final.&nbsp; My issue is the advisor developing a spontaneous case of retarded in order to accomplish that finality, because retarded is the only thing that explains him not attempting to mitigate the damage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 7084729, member: 23751"] This is not correct. The NPCs do exercise that power over events. They do it through the DM who has created the personality, desires and goals, quirks, etc. for that NPC and puts himself into the NPC's shoes to make that decision. When I make a decision for an NPC, I am not making a decision for myself at all. The NPC may decide to take a course that I myself would not take were I to make the same decision on my own. The same presumably applies to PCs. The players ought to be making the decisions that their PCs would make, and not the ones that the players just feel like making without any thought about the PCs goals and motivations. No. I am in fact seeing the advisor as having his own agenda. Correct. I get you view it as final. My issue is the advisor developing a spontaneous case of retarded in order to accomplish that finality, because retarded is the only thing that explains him not attempting to mitigate the damage. [/QUOTE]

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