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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1997191" data-attributes="member: 13654">THAT much is true.  The DM can voice his own opinion, just as a casual observer, but should not wade in with those Spiked DM's Size 12's unless the player/PC decisions are in themselves going to cause unnecessary problems.  Until then the DM does NOT get to interfere, only voice an opinion.Which basically means that if you ARE differentiating between PC's and NPC's you exhibit good roleplaying.Look, the game is not about the actions of the NPC's, it's about the actions of the PC's.   Some PC's may die, some NPC's may occasionally have very important parts to play to the point where they need to take a certain precedence over the PC's, but PC's and NPC'S ARE DIFFERENT.  Sometimes they need to be treated the same, sometimes - by sheer virtue of the fact that a PC is NOT an NPC - that character needs to be given special consideration.  MORE consideration, not just equal or lesser.  That doesn't mean that player/PC's desires will ALWAYS take precedence and that other factor are disregarded, but it does mean that PC's must ALWAYS take GREATER CONSIDERATION when being dealt with than dealing with NPC's.  Failure to recognize this is not just poor roleplaying - it is being a poor PLAYER.True the dead PC gets no in-character vote but that doesn't mean the PLAYER IS DEAD.  The player has EVERY BIT as much rights and priveleges as he has whether his character is dead, alive, being replaced, and regardless of the seniority of the player or his character.  That is an immutable fact of D&D - unless someone is being a serious jerk on either side of the equation.</blockquote>

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