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Rival adventurers - should they be built like monsters or PCs?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7806741" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>First, I was assuming the player wanted to take on the ex-NPC, either by choice or because it'd be a long time before any replacement PC could otherwise be introduced. "Sorry, Bob, the party don't have revival in the field and it'll be a while before anything new can come in. If you wanna play one of the enemy survivors that the party's taking in* there's an Elf MU, a Part-Orc sneak, a Dwarf Fighter who seems a bit on the berserk side, and a Human Fighter - take yer pick."</p><p></p><p>* - assume this decision has already been made, for these purposes.</p><p></p><p>And if the NPC was statted out as a Berserker and described as being x-feet tall, male, heavily bearded, wearing leather armour and carrying a selecton of axes and short blades; and bellowed insults at the PCs in what's probably Norse then all of those things need to be in the PC version.</p><p></p><p>Far simpler to have a rough-notes character sheet you can just hand to the player, isn't it?</p><p></p><p>(I see this far more often these days when the party end up taking in defeated-but-decent survivors - or opponents who switched sides partway through - as NPC party members: it's a common occurrence, and if I've already got these guys done up as PCs anyway I don't then have to re-do them on the spot.)</p><p></p><p>(and yes, party NPCs are in all ways the same as PCs, and the players run them sometimes when their PC is out of action)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7806741, member: 29398"] First, I was assuming the player wanted to take on the ex-NPC, either by choice or because it'd be a long time before any replacement PC could otherwise be introduced. "Sorry, Bob, the party don't have revival in the field and it'll be a while before anything new can come in. If you wanna play one of the enemy survivors that the party's taking in* there's an Elf MU, a Part-Orc sneak, a Dwarf Fighter who seems a bit on the berserk side, and a Human Fighter - take yer pick." * - assume this decision has already been made, for these purposes. And if the NPC was statted out as a Berserker and described as being x-feet tall, male, heavily bearded, wearing leather armour and carrying a selecton of axes and short blades; and bellowed insults at the PCs in what's probably Norse then all of those things need to be in the PC version. Far simpler to have a rough-notes character sheet you can just hand to the player, isn't it? (I see this far more often these days when the party end up taking in defeated-but-decent survivors - or opponents who switched sides partway through - as NPC party members: it's a common occurrence, and if I've already got these guys done up as PCs anyway I don't then have to re-do them on the spot.) (and yes, party NPCs are in all ways the same as PCs, and the players run them sometimes when their PC is out of action) [/QUOTE]
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