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« on: April 12, 2007, 03:52:06 AM »
Yeah, there's probably favoritism between me and my wife, but I think we both try to minimize it. (For example, in my current campaign I've managed to come up with subplots for 2 out of 5 PCs, thanks to their backstories. My wife isn't one of them.) Only our players would be able to say for sure how well we succeed.
Of course, as soon as I mentioned this thread to my wife she brought up examples of anti-favoritism we've shown each other. Like how in my Orpheus campaign her PC went through the most grueling, painful, and downright tortuous subplot of them all. (Nothing like having your boyfriend kidnapped, tortured, and turned into an incarnation of pure evil by your own dark twin to ruin your afterlife.) Or the time in her D&D campaign where at one point she did her darnest to make my character pay for a studpid action, involving not only a 100+ foot fall onto solid rock, but also a red dragon falling on top of him one round later. (Still alive! Thank goodness for d12 hit dice.)
If anything, I've found I tend to play favorite to the people who talk the most, probably because I'm most aware of and familiar with their characters.