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IANJ but I run small parties with a GMPC. Rather successful, too. If your GM is on the boards you might have him send me a PM or something. Because from what I read here it sounds like the problem is your GM hasn't made the effort to make his NPC into an actual character.

You don't have to be James Jacobs to have good feedback! This is something we talked about. He said it wasn't likely he'd be able to GM as well as he can and run a fully developed character. Given my position that I couldn't run two fully developed characters at the same time, I find this reasonable.

So here's my situation. My gaming group is small, two players and a GM. Our GM ran Curse of the Crimson Throne with us as gestalt characters so we could fill all the party niches and we had a blast. We did a few other things, got busy with work and kids and recently sat down to do Skull and Shackles. Our GM decided that this time we would not be gestalt but have NPCs to pad out the party.

Fast forward to nearing the end of Book 1. The GM feels like we haven't spent enough time talking to the NPC in the party and feels like we won't get the full feel for the adventure without being close to some of our crew. Myself and the other player have come to somewhat resent the NPC because she doesn't really add anything to the story (she has no arc, no fully fleshed out motivations) but we need her around because challenges are too hard without extra bodies.

If the GM really believes that we need four characters to really tell this story the way it deserves to be told, I think we either need to figure out a way to tell the story a different way or just play a different campaign.

Any thoughts, James?

Cool, thanks for reading and your kind words. I'll try and keep an eye out if you look for Kingmaker replacements.

I'll throw my hat in. Paine was originally intended to ask, "What if Friar Tuck was a bad ass inquisitor?" But as I wrote and researched the voice came out a little more as "What if Batman were an American Founding Father?"

He's statted for level 1 but it shouldn't be but the work of a morning to level him to 7.

The rest or the servers bustled about a large corner table, about which most of the tavern's patrons watched a scarred man hold forth with great joy. Consequently, they paid Gurni little notice as he approached the bar, a welcome change from the hostile stares in the streets.

Dwarf! Come, sit. All are welcome at the table of Cayden Cailean and I seem to have a couple more beers than I have hands."

YuenglingDragon here with Aleksander Paine, Inquisitor of Cayden Cailean. I'm channeling some Robin Hood, some Punisher, and some wine (which I am drinking straight from the bottle for "inspiration"). His name is a mash up of two American founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Paine. Sh*t, this guy was fun to write.

The crunch is mostly done in the profile and the background below is repeated there. I still need to allocate a few things and I probably need to check how much gold I spent. A lot of GM's doing PbP seem to be starting PCs with max gold and I may have overspent.

Edit: Paine doesn't have a phenomenal Cha but he has enough skill points that he'll have plenty of ranks for Diplomacy and Intimidate and a little Bluff, too. He'll make a good face for the party. Archery can start of kind of slow but, of course, it ends up doing some hefty damage so he's got that, too. His spells will be entirely buffs, utility and healing so he's got that, too. This is my favorite thing about Inquisitors (and Bards for that matter), they make great all around PC's filling any niche as needed.