NPC to PC

[Quasqueton]

DMs:

Have you ever created and played an NPC that you ended up wanting to some day play as a PC?

Did you ever get to play that character as a PC in a game?

Quasqueton

 

[DarkMaster]

Very often,

and no I rarely play as a player and since most of my very interesting NPC are evil (I leave the PC be the cool Good character) I never had that chance.

 

[Crothian]

As DM I don't PC that often so many of the NPCs are PC ideas I'll never get to run.....

 

[Henry]

Only one -- Dodge, an NPC fighter that my PCs rescued from the Neogi slavers in Wildspace.

He carried little armor, a series of explosive and utility crossbows, and a hell of a lot of attitude. (Think a cross between Ben Grimm and Green Arrow). He also served as ship's bartender and cook.

And my players thoroughly enjoyed him. I almost wished I'd had a chance to play him as a PC myself.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Yes - I created Stivor, a wood-elven ranger NPC back in the 1E days that eventually developed psionics and replaced my regular PC (who was turned to stone for a long stretch of time and unrecoverable). I played him as a PC for several months, then got back my regular PC, and Stivor rejoined the ranks of the NPC's of my campaign. I've used him in every campaign I've run since.

 

[ARandomGod]

Yes, I have. In fact, one time I was GMing in a shared world (with PC's in different areas and not interacting), and had the very NPC I created show up as my PC in the other game on that world.

That was interesting and fun.

 

[Drowbane]

Totally man, back in 2e....

My group had several DMs, and we had kind of an open round-robin "who ever feels like running runs" shared world. Just about all of my really cool 2e PCs started out as a NPC run by me. Then another DM would run some backstory for that character... made for a crazy web of storyline... covering several planes, 5 settings, and about 2,000 years.

Was good times.

 

[S'mon]

No, AFAICR PCs always begin as PCs. Cool PCs can become NPCs, though.

 

[The_Magician]

I do it all the time in my pbems. Sometimes a cool NPC in a game I DM i turn into a PC to play in someone else's game. The opposite also happens. Sometimes I create a character for someone;s game, then turn that character into an NPC in my own game. It is especially cool when I have a DM who is also being DMed by me in my own game, and he sees the character I am playing in his game as an NPC in the game I am DMing to him. I ahve done it inumerous times and everytime the player realises he has seen that NPC before, but as a PC roleplayed by me in a game, he finds it exciting. =)