Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1581308" data-attributes="member: 1210">Hmmm... I've actually been wondering lately if the npc fighter (Thrush) in the epic party imc is a dmpc... and I'm the dm!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> He started off as the main henchmen of a bunch of badguys in a virtually-inescapable dungeon the party went through around 12th-18th levels... but they suborned him.&nbsp; He'd been trapped in there for years, and one of the pcs was a slutty female fighter who seduced him and is now engaged to him, having had twins by him.&nbsp; (There were some mighty high diplomacy checks rolled there, even before the circumstance bonus I gave for Sybele's seduction of him.)Since I originally designed him to be a challenge for the whole party, he's still one of the toughest of them.&nbsp; So when a fight breaks out, he's lethal.&nbsp; Also, he's really fast, so there are times when combat breaks out and he kills it and it's over.Still, he's definitely not the center of attention; I don't give him any special protection (and in fact he's died I think twice and had his soul sucked into a terrible monster for a while since he joined up with the group).&nbsp; He also doesn't have any connections or anything.Still, he outshines the new player's fighter, since he's higher level.&nbsp; He is in fact the self-declared &quot;foremost swordsman of his day&quot; (and he might be right; there are only a very limited number of epic-level characters, pc or npc, imc).Meh... he even wants to retire to raise the kids.&nbsp; But he's trying to get Sybele to retire with him, and she's insisting on some other adventures first.&nbsp; It's an interesting dynamic.... I guess that's my out, if I decide that he's becoming too much, but none of the players really seem to mind him...Meh.&nbsp; :\</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 1581308, member: 1210"] Hmmm... I've actually been wondering lately if the npc fighter (Thrush) in the epic party imc is a dmpc... and I'm the dm! :confused: He started off as the main henchmen of a bunch of badguys in a virtually-inescapable dungeon the party went through around 12th-18th levels... but they suborned him. He'd been trapped in there for years, and one of the pcs was a slutty female fighter who seduced him and is now engaged to him, having had twins by him. (There were some mighty high diplomacy checks rolled there, even before the circumstance bonus I gave for Sybele's seduction of him.) Since I originally designed him to be a challenge for the whole party, he's still one of the toughest of them. So when a fight breaks out, he's [i]lethal.[/i] Also, he's really fast, so there are times when combat breaks out and he kills it and it's over. Still, he's definitely not the center of attention; I don't give him any special protection (and in fact he's died I think twice and had his soul sucked into a terrible monster for a while since he joined up with the group). He also doesn't have any connections or anything. Still, he outshines the new player's fighter, since he's higher level. He is in fact the self-declared "foremost swordsman of his day" (and he might be right; there are only a very limited number of epic-level characters, pc or npc, imc). Meh... he even wants to retire to raise the kids. But he's trying to get Sybele to retire with him, and she's insisting on some other adventures first. It's an interesting dynamic.... I guess that's my out, if I decide that he's becoming too much, but none of the players really seem to mind him... Meh. :\ [/QUOTE]

Verification