Re: Lethality of events

On Wed, 9 May 2007, John Morrow wrote:

> On Thu, 10 May 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
>
>> Yes. If the GM can maintain separation between fantasy and reality, 
>> there's no reason a player can't.
>
> I don't generally run NPCs as a GM the same way I run PCs as a player. 
> Do you?

Well, I'm not Ben, but I think I do run PCs and NPCs in similar ways when 
the NPC has a defined background and personality - that is, when I know 
enough about them to improvise an "in-character" performance for that 
character.

For me, the differences between a PC performance and an NPC performance 
are

(a) I'm likely to be able to spend more play time focussing on the 
in-character performance while playing a PC, and
(b) I'm likely to have to split my focus between more than one NPC when 
I'm GMing.

Cheers,

Gary Johnson
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