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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2686510" data-attributes="member: 22622">I love introducing ex pcs as npcs in my campaigns.  My players often wonder when i'm going to introduce some of their favorite npcs during a campaign. Also, my former pcs are more fleshed out than some of my campaign generated pcs because the players themselves have previous contact with them and know their tendancies and personalities.  I often will play a long-term npc for my campaign as a pc if i can find a game i can sit in.  This helps me flesh out certain background elements.  Now, that said, i dont think the problem is dm's former pcs turning into npcs.  THe problem is when dms turn ANY npc into their own npc.  I"ve  experienced the horrors of this in my former group and it stopped me from playing for a bit a few years ago.  One DM had a wizard called Elleron.  He was suppose to be our level, but hehad his own tower and controlled wildmagic and knew every spell in the phb.  Most battles would be Elleron blood bath's unless he allowed us to participate.  It got really boring really fast. Another DM had Kane, a tielfling fighter with a large mask that could fly, fire light beams from his eyes and read the minds of everyone.  Imagine partying with superman and you're the wondertwins, that pretty much what it felt like.   Thats why I always make sure to have my own npcs be what they are suppose to be, side characters at best.  In combat I don't control any npc whom is not an enemy, I give the character to a player and let them control him.  This also assures that I don't fudge anything because I like the npcs.</blockquote>

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