Quote Originally Posted by stoutstien View Post
So the npc in question isnt the cause of the issue why treat it as such? If the problem is a dissatisfied DM then why not just deal with that instead of trying to defect to silly divisions of types of NPCs?
Okay, dude. You're arguing for arguments' sake. My posts have been regarding the OPs topic: NPCs that steal screen time from PCs. I'm not making "silly divisions."
When a DM is playing a character the way a player would, it's not an NPC, anymore, because it has as much agency as the players do. The DM is the NPC/DMPC. It's all the same problem. Why are you trying to create silly divisions between the DM and the characters they control?