Hyena
2015-01-20, 07:55 PM
I'll spare you the details, but I have a DMPC in the game and no way to avoid that.
Wait, no. I can't spare you the details. Well, let me keep this short - the game in question is not a PnP-game, but a FRPG with really weird rules. It has DM-player quest system, where to every player there's a DM assigned, who's telling his character's personal story. Of course, every DM has a character of his own, who's handled by another DM. But the FRPG ALSO has those things called organizations, which now have organization-level quests, when every member of the organization is involved, and they're DMed by organization's leader. Who, I remind you, has a character of his own. That is organization's leader IC. See my point now?
So, right now I see two choices.
1) My character becomes a full-blown DMPC, who's in the middle of the action with everyone else, doing stuff and being awesome. However, this will inevitably create the usual spotlight-stealing problem that all games with DMPCs have - and because this DMPC is my beloved character, this is going to get bad. I don't want that.
2) The other option is, my character stays in the background. Which, if overdone - and it must be overdone in order to keep the attention on the actual player characters, not mine character (the leader, remember?), will raise questions like "Wait, our leader is constantly trapped, disabled, knocked unconcious, splits up with us, and every time she does something, it happens off-screen and doesn't have impact on the plot as a whole. Uh, why's she the leader, again?"
Help me, Giantitp. You're my only hope.
PS: This is basically the first time organization-level quest happens, ever, so I can't adress previous experiences.
Wait, no. I can't spare you the details. Well, let me keep this short - the game in question is not a PnP-game, but a FRPG with really weird rules. It has DM-player quest system, where to every player there's a DM assigned, who's telling his character's personal story. Of course, every DM has a character of his own, who's handled by another DM. But the FRPG ALSO has those things called organizations, which now have organization-level quests, when every member of the organization is involved, and they're DMed by organization's leader. Who, I remind you, has a character of his own. That is organization's leader IC. See my point now?
So, right now I see two choices.
1) My character becomes a full-blown DMPC, who's in the middle of the action with everyone else, doing stuff and being awesome. However, this will inevitably create the usual spotlight-stealing problem that all games with DMPCs have - and because this DMPC is my beloved character, this is going to get bad. I don't want that.
2) The other option is, my character stays in the background. Which, if overdone - and it must be overdone in order to keep the attention on the actual player characters, not mine character (the leader, remember?), will raise questions like "Wait, our leader is constantly trapped, disabled, knocked unconcious, splits up with us, and every time she does something, it happens off-screen and doesn't have impact on the plot as a whole. Uh, why's she the leader, again?"
Help me, Giantitp. You're my only hope.
PS: This is basically the first time organization-level quest happens, ever, so I can't adress previous experiences.