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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TanisFrey" data-source="post: 5454317" data-attributes="member: 26948">When the DM plays the character as the center of attraction, the one who gets the prime spot light you run the risk of boring you players.  You can make their character feel helpless and along for the ride.I played in a 2ed game as a ranger about 6 level.  We had a party of 8 PC and the DM PC.  The DC PC was, as we later found out, an archwizard (15th level plus) who dual classes into a rouge to hide from the leader of a group we were attacking.  She was hiding from the bid bad of the campaign.  Per the DM she had hidden for a time within the enemy organization.  So when she joined us and we attacked an outpost, the thief in the party never needed to find traps or hidden compartment or find anything hidden.  We the players were never given the opportunity to search, the DM ruled that her PC just found the hidden compartment and told us what each and every item within was.  This happened before we could say that we were searching the room for loot.</blockquote>