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I've had bad experiences in the distant past with DMPCs and have a pretty negative attitude toward them. I'm curious if you can clarify that a little. An NPC cleric that is 5 levels higher than the party, outfitted to the gills and has access to resources far beyond the party is a VERY BAD THING. If he's not, then he's just an NPC.Īn NPC cleric brought into a group that needs a healer is fine. Look, one of the worst things you can do is bring in a Mary Sue character. I've run them and had DM's who've run them. But, I don't expect the cleric to be able to outfight me, have more hit points, better AC and know all the answers.Īn NPC is fine. If I'm a fighter and I take a cleric cohort, I expect the cleric to be a better caster than me, of course. Now, don't take that to mean that the cohort should be useless. I would also be truly angry if my cohort was better than me. I would be very, very angry if a DM decided that my cohort was going to screw me over. We don't suddenly have PC's wands that they crafted themselves spontaneously combust. Since the cohort is given to me by a feat that I choose to take, screwing me over by having my cohort do something against my interests is hardly fair. Conan had a pretty decent leadership score - granted, it kept getting knocked down 'cos he got all his followers and cohorts killed - but he still rarely trooped off on his own. Many, many fantasy heroes had mooks with them. Why are you uncomfortable with the idea of servants? It is certainly fitting with the setting. Others are clearly more comfortable with that, but I don't see it as a resolution favourable to a DMPC. The notion that some characters are just there to fill in the gaps and won't stir up the pot is at least as prone to abuse as the notion that there is a character on the table who is tied to the DM. As a DM I could and would be at least as likely to throw a wrench in the works from an NPC cohort as I would from a PC. Sure evil characters could decide one character has less value than another, but the notion that there is a natural division there I find rather suspicious. The notion that you have say 6 characters in the dungeon, all with their lives on the line, but 2 are naturally subservient to the rest is itself an odd skew. My experience may be ideosyncratic, but the biggest scene stealers I have dealt with have in fact been overpowered NPCs, not DM PCs.įor my own part, I am uncormfortable with the notion of a sort of second class character, Cohort.
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Whereas declaring a character to be a PC puts the DM on the hotseat, so to speak, and calls attention to the problem in a way that I find helpful. If anythig, I still think the disjunct - it's just an NPC - often provides a DM with an opportunity to deny the impact of his favoritism. If a DM doesn't have the discipline to handle these matters, he can be just as caught up in a character that is technically an NPC as any official PC. Is it unthinkable that a DM could play a character and still mind his world? Improbable that a DM could play a character without stealing thunder? Perhaps, I just don't see any sense in which determining that the character is an NPC really helps that. Your timeline editing tools are sorely lacking and you would be wise to let go of your photoshop analogies and look at a system that has mastered those tools and incorporate some of that logic into premiere.It's interesting to see how different people weigh the judgement calls. Same goes with any semblance of a slip tool. I wish the Trim mode made sense so that I could rely on it for thousands of trims. I really wish Premiere's user interface was up to par with Avid, I really do. Because I favor the rolling edit you can see why it is annoying that it is buried behind a tool I never use.
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Aside from rolling edit, selection and razor, the rest of the tools seem illogical and useless. Of the tools presented in the timeline tools palette, the rolling edit is the one I use the most. In my opinion, while Premiere is excellent in a number of regards, the interface lags behind. In that time I have used and mastered Avid, dabbled with Final Cut and I have used Premiere solidly for seven years.
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I have been a professional editor for over 25 years.
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Don't make us click or search needlessly for critical tools. Why? Video editors perform thousands of operations every day usually in an effort to meet a deadline. I think it is unwise to bury functions behind a "well" because photo retouching programs do the same.