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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeNotCharles" data-source="post: 4853325" data-attributes="member: 79945">I don't think there should be any difference between judges/DM's and just plain players making third characters.  Not everyone has the urge or skills to be a DM or judge, and we don't want the community to turn into a clique where the handful of judges get extra perks.  In fact, I'm strongly against giving judges any extra bonuses not directly related to their judging duties.If we start allowing 3rd and 4th characters I think we need to really make sure that nobody's playing more characters at a time than anybody else.  It can be hard to keep track, especially with some adventures running much longer than others.  It would really suck, for example, if somebody starts an adventure containing a lot of people who already have characters in 1 or 2 other adventures just a day before someone's very first character enters the tavern, and then they have to wait for ages until another adventure starts.  We had a while with more adventures then characters, but I'm still worried that we'll end up having a glut of characters without enough adventures to go around as a general thing.EDIT: on reading garyh's reasoning, exchanging DM credits for extra PC's does sound like a good idea - as long as it's not a self-selecting group, where friends of judges can get DM credits more easily than anyone else.</blockquote>