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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 3767185" data-attributes="member: 426">I do not have a problem with a setting having powerful NPCs -- rather, what matters is how they are used.  We should also recall that the World of Greyhawk has NPCs like Mordenkainen, Tenser, Robilar, and Rary.To my mind, most worlds should have people who are more capable than the characters.  Yet, the time may come inside of each individual campaign where the player characters equal or suprass the NPCs of note.  In which case, a DM can decide to retire an NPC, kill of the NPC, or pursue other steps that allow the PCs to handle the threats that the NPCs may have faced in the past.  (In the case of regional NPCs, like Drizzt, this is not as important if a Realms campaign is set near Halruaa or Var the Golden -- far from the Silver Marches.)In a homebrew campaign, one of my characters ultimately reached the point with the rest of the party that they equalled the power of NPCs handling the major threats.  The NPCs who handled these threats in the past died.  (I ultimately left the campaing do to balance issues, and the DM introducing his own uber-NPCs of the same class and far greater power than my PC.  That and there were balance issues among the player characters that the DM refused to address.  As it stopped being fun, I left.  So, I can understand about having an NPC overshadow a PC, as well as more balanced ways of handling NPCs)So, in your Realms campaign, Elminster may be supplanted by a PC.  In which case, do with Elminster what you want.  Rather than being forced to rely on canon, it is up to each DM and the players to breathe life into a campaign. It is also up to DMs to chose how they use NPCs -- as the stars of the setting or as part of the background with which characters interact.  In the Realms, I suspect NPCs will be the focus of the novels -- but it is up to each DM to make sure that the focus of a campaign is on the PCs. So, I suspect that Elminster and Drizzt will be around in the next FRCS.  However, I think that the focus should be on the player characters. There have been some suggestions on how to handle this.  So, use Elminster and Drizzt as you wish in your version of the Realms -- whether as NPCs who interact with the PCs or as NPCs to kill off.  The choice is yours.</blockquote>

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