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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7508633" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>There's a veritable straw army there. Never said most of that, so I'm going to ignore your straw and just respond to what I have really been saying. For some DMs, though, allowing the players to control NPCs does lessen their enjoyment, yes. The warlock is sworn and beholden to his NPC patron. It's so important to the character class that an entire section was written about it. It's the DM's job to play that NPC, not the the player's job to dictate what the NPCs will do and how it will act, and yes, saying that the NPC cannot make any sort of demands on the warlock is dictating in part how it will act and what it will do. That crosses the line, and reasonably so, for some DMs.</p><p></p><p>I haven't seen anyone on my side arguing that the patron would just run around commanding the warlock to go on months long quests and drag everyone else along with him. That's just the paranoia of certain posters with regard to the DM having control of the patron.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 7508633, member: 23751"] There's a veritable straw army there. Never said most of that, so I'm going to ignore your straw and just respond to what I have really been saying. For some DMs, though, allowing the players to control NPCs does lessen their enjoyment, yes. The warlock is sworn and beholden to his NPC patron. It's so important to the character class that an entire section was written about it. It's the DM's job to play that NPC, not the the player's job to dictate what the NPCs will do and how it will act, and yes, saying that the NPC cannot make any sort of demands on the warlock is dictating in part how it will act and what it will do. That crosses the line, and reasonably so, for some DMs. I haven't seen anyone on my side arguing that the patron would just run around commanding the warlock to go on months long quests and drag everyone else along with him. That's just the paranoia of certain posters with regard to the DM having control of the patron. [/QUOTE]
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