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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2091075" data-attributes="member: 5171">This might be an important point.  And likely, it is a point where a DMPC is different from a PC.  My favorite DMPC, the one who tagged along for two years with the group, had a Dex of 9.  I played it for laughs, having her trip at humorous moments and such.  I even purposely fudged her Reflex saves so that she never made one, even though a Dex of 9 isn't all that huge a penalty.As a player with a PC, I doubt I'd have been willing to go that far.  So while a story hour might have made this NPC look pretty PC-like (yeah, she had her drama, but she was about fourth in line in terms of amout of character drama going on at any given time), from a purely mechanical perspective, it's unlikely that she would have worked as a PC, since players don't usually have the luxury of choosing to let their characters fail things.(And I casually let people know in one-on-one notes that the clumsy paladin looked embarrassed and angry about her clumsiness, especially given her half-elven nature, and that she was actually really defensive about it.  Eventually, when her church scapegoated her for something that wasn't her fault, she had a crisis of faith, and a wizard with a Belt of Agility +6 was able to tempt her into falling from paladinhood, which was when she left the party.  That was actually a good roleplaying night, watching the PCs react to seeing their friend fall from grace and, in effect, head on over to the dark side.)</blockquote>

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