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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 896603" data-attributes="member: 707">Not to paint a target on my chest, but...In a way, I feel that every NPC should be a DMPC.  Every NPC should have the same level of care in creation, attention to personality and detail, that a full PC created by the DM would.  Of course, not all NPCs in the game world will have a stat sheet and personality written out, but the closer to that a DM can come, the more alive his game world.I try to make every person in my world come alive.  And that usually means having a kind of personal attachment to them.  But so long as that attachment never means bending the rules for them, or overshadowing the PCs with them, then I think that kind of care actual adds to the richness of the game, rather than taking away from it.In a previous campaign, the first session my PCs (only three), were hunting down kidnappers on a stone bridge over a river.  Since they were low on people, they'd had the opportunity to take along two NPCs.  They chose a cleric, and Az-Azak, a tall, grey-skinned fighter wielding a falchion.  Man, I loved that guy.  Imposing, stoic, long back top-knot of hair, and a big-ass falchion.So when he fell off the bridge and was trying to swim to shore, it really hurt me when the goblins, seeing an easy target, shot him full of crossbow bolts and he disappeared under the waves in a red cloud.</blockquote>