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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2089944" data-attributes="member: 5171">Other side note: To the people who post saying, "I wouldn't be able to be impartial with my own PC," or "I wouldn't trust my DM to be impartial with his own PC," I'd like to ask the following: If the DM in question can't be trusted not to cheat in favor of his own PC, what makes you think he's going to be better at anything else?  I mean, a close second to "The DM made his own pet NPC who is better than us at everything" is "The DM's best friend just joined the group and is getting all the best treasure."  After that, do a search on "The DM doesn't let any of our plans work because it messes up his plot."  A failure to be impartial is rarely limited to one's own PC, and if this is your chief complaint with the idea of a DMPC, that may be an indication of an issue with your DM, not the concept of a DMPC.Not to say that a given DM couldn't be good in all other respects but lousy with a DMPC -- just like a different DM could be great with a DMPC (totally impartial, makes sure the DMPC doesn't shine, really just a cute support role) but awful with regard to one player over another, allowing one player to do completely non-rules-supported stuff and making magical items just for that character while shooting down every idea that the other player might come up with.  There are different forms of bad-DM-ness.  But this is, I think, one of them -- not a bad idea in and of itself, but examples of bad execution.</blockquote>

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