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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philip" data-source="post: 2603211" data-attributes="member: 10993">Our party leader is always based on the player. If I don't DM my characters are party leaders 99% of the time, regardless of Charisma, class etc.Tried not to be a leader many times, but that's usually frustrating for everybody involved. Lots of questioning looks in my direction while other's try to decide on a course of action, lots of withheld comments and remarks by me.I've DM'ed for truly leaderless parties as well. In such a case you as DM can assume the leadership role or you will be in for a really slow and indecisive game or a party splitting up and going to do their own thing.But you don't only have party leaders, you have party mediators as well, party tension-breakers, party rebels, party lone-wolves, party followers etc. And I find their roles almost always tied someone's personality, regardless of the specifics of the character.</blockquote>