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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dronehound" data-source="post: 4200175" data-attributes="member: 58975">If the character is anything but a defender, give him a pet or something else that can fill that roll.  Something like Drizzle's panther.  I can even gain power with the character, becoming something like an advanced familiar.  For example, your solo dragonborn wizard starts up with a family heirloom of a statuette of a small lizard.  The statuette can turn into a giant lizard every encounter for 4 rounds.  He gains a few levels, and the statuette can turn into a fire lizard for 10 rounds.  Achieve paragon status, and the statuette can now turn into a half-red dragon/wyvern at will, and can be used as a mount.  At epic level, it turns into a giant fire breathing realm destroyer of a dragon.  Similarly, for a tiefling warlock, an imp at lower level, then hellhound, then nightmare, then cerebus.  For an elf ranger, a wolf, dire wolf, blinking winter wolf, legendary blinking winter wolf....This is a better option than throwing in random fighter NPC. A pet will not take the glory of the player, and in fact, the player controlling the pet will take pride in it's success as much as the success of his character.</blockquote>