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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8098014" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>It seems there is a sweet-spot between full-blown DMPC and NPC that might work for my purposes. A thought that came to mind after reading the replies is that I could have the PCs either meet a friendly adventuring party that occasionally works with them, maybe lending a member for a time, or have the PCs be part of a larger adventuring group, and on specific quests different NPCs can travel with them.</p><p></p><p>I hear and agree with the hard-to-avoid problem of the DMPC, and I don't like or intend to use them as an expert on the world, but I also find that--if done skillfully--can bring play experience alive, in a sense give the PCs a "native" of the world to interact with on an ongoing basis.</p><p></p><p>I doubt anyone <em>really </em>does this, but perhaps the most blatant example of DMPC exploitation is, say, running a ranger and then making the best magic item in a trove be, voila!, a magic longbow! Who might make good use of that, doyathink?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 8098014, member: 59082"] It seems there is a sweet-spot between full-blown DMPC and NPC that might work for my purposes. A thought that came to mind after reading the replies is that I could have the PCs either meet a friendly adventuring party that occasionally works with them, maybe lending a member for a time, or have the PCs be part of a larger adventuring group, and on specific quests different NPCs can travel with them. I hear and agree with the hard-to-avoid problem of the DMPC, and I don't like or intend to use them as an expert on the world, but I also find that--if done skillfully--can bring play experience alive, in a sense give the PCs a "native" of the world to interact with on an ongoing basis. I doubt anyone [I]really [/I]does this, but perhaps the most blatant example of DMPC exploitation is, say, running a ranger and then making the best magic item in a trove be, voila!, a magic longbow! Who might make good use of that, doyathink? [/QUOTE]
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