The whole campaign - what little of it we played, because it didn't last long - was various dmpcs figthing other high level threats while we watched and did stuff that were railroaded into irrelevance anyway.Ah, the Avatar Trilogy! Bad times, bad times all around. after a while we were imprisoned (railroad) while the dmpc escaped, and we thought we were fine our daring prison escape was railroaded into failing, we were imprisoned again, until we were freed by another dmpc. as a low level party, we were given as followers to an epic level dmpc. The point of this post? Really just to tell a story or share an experience, but I think it could be read as cautionary for anyone thinking about employing a DMPC type character even in a background role seems to attract sour feeling. This DMPC is not present or even mentioned 90% of the time and has almost a negligible influence on the campaign and yet it still manages to chafe a bit. The DMPC swoops in and grabs the glory, the best plot hooks, all the brightest moments are his for the taking. Now the character was always a bit of a jerk, and I don't mind that this NPC is mean to us, but it creates a strain on the character to DM relationship when the DM's own character reminds or scolds us for our mistakes while his own character has never made any mistakes due to never really doing anything.Ĭlearly this is somewhat annoying, but while I didn't specifically start this thread looking for advice on "what to do", I find myself surprised at how it all played out and how long it took for me to realize that this was basically a DMPC before me, because it differs so much from the stereotypical version of events.
#Dmpc pro change mood Pc
But as the campaign has gone on (for about a year now) I've noticed an annoying tendency for my DM to set his PC apart from us in the way he speaks of him or acts towards our PCs, setting him up as somehow better than us for his lack of making any mistakes. If anything, I thought he was a little too removed from events. The only problem is that he himself has a character from that campaign who is a demigod, and so he sort of squirrels him away as an exarch of Silvanus doing things behind the scenes as to not inadvertently play his own PC in the game he's running.įor a while this worked well and I never felt like this PC overshadowed us or even really participated at all. One of those players wants to continue the campaign as a heavily sandboxed text-roleplay with our demigod characters acting as movers and shakers, big fish jumping into the big pond. Some short backstory My friend runs a campaign for us set in Faerun and our characters end up killing Bhaal and splitting up his divine power between us to become demigods, campaign ends.
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I've never actually seen one in practice until recently, and although the experience wasn't pleasant it didn't play out how I imagined.
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In the collective imagination of the D&D community, ever since I got started, I've heard about DMPCs and how they are a cringe and eye-roll inducing inclusion to any game, either barely tolerated or actively protested.