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<blockquote data-quote="jayoungr" data-source="post: 6838915" data-attributes="member: 6702445">Doing it in a campaign right now, and have been playing that way for a couple of years.&nbsp; I have three players and a party of four PCs.&nbsp; One player always plays two characters, and another takes over a second character when our third player can't make it (which is relatively often).It works well enough; the main thing that it's bad for is when you have any sort of inter-party intrigue or secrets.&nbsp; For instance, I ran a campaign a couple of years ago where an NPC was secretly an Erinyes devil.&nbsp; Ideally, she should have tried to seduce one or more party members and turn them against each other or against the rest of the group, with a heavy exchange of notes between DM and player leading to a shocking revelation, preferably in the middle of combat.&nbsp; But it just didn't seem like it would be as much fun to do that when the betrayer and the betrayed would be played by the same person.&nbsp; It would be especially tricky if one player was in the know while the other(s) were not.However, that's really the only difficulty it's caused for me.&nbsp; And it's definitely less of a headache to wrangle schedules with fewer players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jayoungr, post: 6838915, member: 6702445"] Doing it in a campaign right now, and have been playing that way for a couple of years. I have three players and a party of four PCs. One player always plays two characters, and another takes over a second character when our third player can't make it (which is relatively often). It works well enough; the main thing that it's bad for is when you have any sort of inter-party intrigue or secrets. For instance, I ran a campaign a couple of years ago where an NPC was secretly an Erinyes devil. Ideally, she should have tried to seduce one or more party members and turn them against each other or against the rest of the group, with a heavy exchange of notes between DM and player leading to a shocking revelation, preferably in the middle of combat. But it just didn't seem like it would be as much fun to do that when the betrayer and the betrayed would be played by the same person. It would be especially tricky if one player was in the know while the other(s) were not. However, that's really the only difficulty it's caused for me. And it's definitely less of a headache to wrangle schedules with fewer players. [/QUOTE]

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