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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkness" data-source="post: 479990" data-attributes="member: 13">My players tend to persuade quite a few NPCs into joining them - also, I view characters (whether PCs or NPCs) as people, and wouldn't draw a line between "PCs" and "NPCs" or what either is "allowed" to do. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> (Which is doubly appropriate since quite a few of our PCs tend, in the long run, to become worse enemies - but not necessarily worse people - to the PC party than the actual villains of the campaign could ever be... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)So I do whatever seems right and let them run with it - or not, depending on the NPC, the situation, and the PCs (e.g., a female NPC wizard once left the PC party after one of the PCs looted a couple graves too many <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).NPCs almost always add lots of fun to a game, too - so you don't see me complaining about my players' "recruitment drives," either... <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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