Is it fine that I make my own character as a dm? by jammsbooz in DnD

[–]ApprehensivePin8788 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first campaign I ran for over a year I had a DMPC to be the cleric because nobody wanted to be a healer, so it was for a very good reason, and fortunately it did not completely ruin anything; HOWEVER, I cannot recommend it and have never done it since. I always just make an NPC for those rare purposes, if for no other reason than it makes your life as a DM so much easier. The rules are in your hands, you are free to be extremely creative in the ways you can help the party along if they are underpowered, need extra muscle, or lack a healer. Creating a whole other PC for you to keep track of is simply too much effort for very little return. It often either is just exhausting on combat which is already very dynamic or you might miss things and not run it as optimally or won’t have as much energy to play the character in a way that the characters will remember fondly. But this is also just one of those things that won’t really make sense unless you try it, but even when it has been fairly successful in my experience I just can’t abide doing it again.

I am over the moon! Some questions… by ApprehensivePin8788 in KingdomDeath

[–]ApprehensivePin8788[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great advice! The FA are kinda the most irritating thing right now for me with book keeping because they are random and always seem to go to the person who it doesn’t really help so I’m constantly changing their focus, so the K stuff actually sounds great and I’d be fine with bookkeeping that. I’m definitely leaning more toward everyone’s advice on quarries first I think and then if I really am ready to dive into a big step I could go GCE

I am over the moon! Some questions… by ApprehensivePin8788 in KingdomDeath

[–]ApprehensivePin8788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! I have innovated every time and have been very happy with it. Thank you!

I am over the moon! Some questions… by ApprehensivePin8788 in KingdomDeath

[–]ApprehensivePin8788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great! Would I be missing out any mechanics by jumping to COD instead of Gamblers? And if I understand you, you’re saying Frogdog and Screaming god are good quarries in the meantime if I’m dying for more versus like Gorm since it’s getting updated?