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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6698047" data-attributes="member: 1465">The bookkeeping is the same whether the compaion is considered an NPC or a class feature of one PC.Have you ever tried a game of D&D when players (some or all) have multiple PCs? This wasn't rare in very old editions.In my current tabletop 5e campaign, one player (the most experienced one) is playing 2 PCs at once. The reason was that we have 3 players but we wanted a bigger, traditional Fighter+Cleric+Rogue+Wizard party. She doesn't play these 2 PCs as if they are one "twice as powerful", they are 2 different PCs, period. I am not going to anything "when everyone at the table now wants a companion character". Let them try. The game just gets harder for each player to play, and that is why it won't happen. (In older editions it happened because the game was so simple that you could still easily play 2-3 PCs, and this was usually meant for adventures with very high mortality so that when your PCs start dying you don't have to stop and roll new ones but can continue with the surviving ones). The matter takes care of itself: some players know that it is not fun if it gets too hard to handle 2 PCs. An experienced player will take that as a burden to help the party, like our player is doing right now. Only a moron will think of it as "I'm two people, I'm twice as powerful", but he too will figure it out once he realizes the game is suddenly twice as difficult, as he's playing it poorly, more like he's "twice as moron" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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