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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8005911" data-attributes="member: 29398">If I-as-DM have any NPC adventurers (i.e. full party members, not just henches) in the party they'll have a say just like anyone else, but will usually in the end do what they're told.Absolutely!How can this happen?  Players can't force another player to sign over a PC to the DM as an NPC.They can boot the PC from the party, but by no means does that make it an NPC: a PC always belongs to its player unless that player declares otherwise, right?There's also some characters - and some players - to whom 'plan' is a four-letter word; and who are best left out of any planning process 'cause they're gonna do what they're gonna do no matter what, and what they do is either gonna help or it isn't.  I don't mind this at all.I'll happily run side campaigns; but sometimes it means we play one group one week and the other group the next (in these cases the players without PCs often roll up new ones, thus there's now two complete parties).</blockquote>