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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8881196" data-attributes="member: 29398">So the only story you'd care about is that of your own single character?&nbsp; That seems a bit...something.&nbsp; Self-centered, maybe?The campaign, and by extension the party in play at the moment within that campaign, is and always must be bigger than any one character, as must its story.&nbsp; Otherwise you're playing x-number of different games all at once, where x is the greater of the number of players at the table or the number of characters in play; and the DM's job largely becomes Cat-Herder In Chief.Think of a typical stage play with a cast of, say, thirty.&nbsp; Some of those thirty might only be on stage for a minute out of a two-hour show, others will be on stage for a significant part of the show, while a few - the stars - will be on stage most of the time.&nbsp; My take on it is that every one of those actors maps to a PC in a campaign - some are only in for a few moments, others hang around for ages - and it's the luck of the draw that determines whether you end up playing a star or a series of bit parts or, eventually, both.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8881196, member: 29398"] So the only story you'd care about is that of your own single character? That seems a bit...something. Self-centered, maybe? The campaign, and by extension the party in play at the moment within that campaign, is and always must be bigger than any one character, as must its story. Otherwise you're playing x-number of different games all at once, where x is the greater of the number of players at the table or the number of characters in play; and the DM's job largely becomes Cat-Herder In Chief. Think of a typical stage play with a cast of, say, thirty. Some of those thirty might only be on stage for a minute out of a two-hour show, others will be on stage for a significant part of the show, while a few - the stars - will be on stage most of the time. My take on it is that [I]every one of those actors[/I] maps to a PC in a campaign - some are only in for a few moments, others hang around for ages - and it's the luck of the draw that determines whether you end up playing a star or a series of bit parts or, eventually, both. [/QUOTE]

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