Originally Posted by FreeTheSlaves
In TT there's a trap where the odd player sometimes thinks they're the main character and it causes problems at the table. This is because the game's true focus isn't any one character, it's the _party_.
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One little doodle I do as a DM is paste character portraits and draw connections to make a relationship map. You can also ring the party with a few important NPCs. The arrows are widened or narrowed to show strength of connections. Anyway, this little activity shows the characters most immersed in the setting, you guessed it - the de facto party (co)leader. The real purpose is to expose weak characters - and work to fix it up with those players.

I feel quite lucky in that the group I’m DMing for right now have a great dynamic. One particular player has very much organically emerged as the group leader, but he is very entertaining and always takes the party on interesting journeys so everybody is more than pleased to let him. He is also a DM and a great improv-story-teller, so it makes sense this would happen.

I do work to make sure everybody feels like the main character of their own personal quest lines which I integrate into the main story though. Gotta make sure nobody feels left out.

Maybe it’s because I’m so used to doing this for others that I don’t mind if my character isn’t explicitly the chosen one. That and when I play in TT groups I always go out of the way to make my characters as ancillary as possible.

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Hell, here is a sketch I did of the party I’m currently playing in. I’m the one of the far camera-right. The least qualified to be leader of the bunch, and that includes the rat-man gangster, Charles E. Cheese and the twelve year old with the cigarette and a bad attitude.

I promise there is a valid story reason I am dressed like that.

Last edited by Warlocke; 28/01/23 07:57 AM.