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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 2090959" data-attributes="member: 11437">Put me in the category of people who don't see a difference between NPCs and these so-called 'DMPCs'.  Either the players or the DM controls any given character.  There is no grey area here.  Thus, either the character in question is a PC (Player Character, run by a Player), or an NPC (Non-Player Character).  I don't understand why there's a problem with this simple fact.Now, if you want to question how a DM runs his NPCs, that's one thing, or to question the role of an NPC in the game, that's fine.  You could certainly point out that a DM would have certain partiality problems with running an NPC in the party long term, but I doubt that too many game sessions go by in my games where an NPC doesn't join the party for some period of time.  These NPCs are not intended as long-term additions to the group, and are always within a level of the average party level either way, and I try to either fill a need within the group for an adventure where they might be lacking, or fill some story need for the short term.Also, I should point out that in our group, we rotate DMs a lot, and the introduction of a NPC into the party is sometimes the outgoing DM's opportunity to introduce a new character they want to play in the upcoming adventure.I'm going to echo what someone said earlier about trust.  If you can't trust your DM to be impartial towards his or her own NPC in the party (or heck, any NPC in the game), that person should not be a DM.  Or at the very least, if you are the only one having these feelings, you should find another game.</blockquote>

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