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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 7003748" data-attributes="member: 413">You are the DM?  You refer to "my paladin".  Is this a DM PC (a character you are running with the party as if it is a PC) or is it just some NPC ally/cohort?If it's a DM PC, just some advice:  Tread lightly.  You can be as even handed as possible, some players will still get bent out of shape if there is any hint of favoritism toward a DM PC (magic item placement, story lines that favor the DM PC, etc).  If I have a character helping the party I nerf it substantially...keep it a couple levels lower than the PCs, reduce it to an NPC stat block similar to what is in the back of the monster manual, etc.  I try to have such characters spend resources (such as Turn Undead) when the players ask me to.  Occasionally I prompt them ("Hey, don't forget Sir Smitesalot can Turn Undead.")Assuming this is an NPC, you can narrate it however you want.  If this is a full on DM PC then you should play it exactly how you would play it with any other PC.  Would you tell the player of the paladin which targets failed?I tend to make all rolls public unless I have a really good reason to keep something secret from the players and designate which characters have which conditions with visual aids of some sort.  As DM, I have enough to keep track of.  My players an utilize meta information if they want to or they can stick to the fictional narrative...whatever is entertaining to them.  I let the players that want to be story tellers be story tellers and the gamists be gamists.</blockquote>

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