I will say my partner and I have been playing a One on One dnd game with them DMing and also playing a DM PC the whole time. - and its honestly kinda worked. The characters have a very good cop bad cop type relationship- which in turn kinda... motivates the direction of the story in a lot of interesting ways it otherwise wouldn't have if that other PC weren't there. I will say alot of it is probably thanks to them having good discretion and hesitancy not to steal too much spotlight. - this is also kinda impossible because the core goal of the campaign directly relates to my PC's revenge plot against some npcs that fucked them over in session zero.
There are good ways and bad ways to do this, my DM does this but her character is a "I don't care, if we are doing what I want to do we are going to be drinking at the bar." type character. It requires a lot of integrity and ability to keep things separate and you have to have a lot of experience to manage this well.
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I will say my partner and I have been playing a One on One dnd game with them DMing and also playing a DM PC the whole time. - and its honestly kinda worked.
The characters have a very good cop bad cop type relationship- which in turn kinda... motivates the direction of the story in a lot of interesting ways it otherwise wouldn't have if that other PC weren't there.
I will say alot of it is probably thanks to them having good discretion and hesitancy not to steal too much spotlight. - this is also kinda impossible because the core goal of the campaign directly relates to my PC's revenge plot against some npcs that fucked them over in session zero.
There are good ways and bad ways to do this, my DM does this but her character is a "I don't care, if we are doing what I want to do we are going to be drinking at the bar." type character. It requires a lot of integrity and ability to keep things separate and you have to have a lot of experience to manage this well.