<![CDATA[Children NPCs, yay or nay?]]>I believe the overall agreement is no minor PCs in games.

But what about children NPCs? Either your character’s own kids, creepy Shining kids villains, or whatever.

Do you think they should be in games? Or all children should be only mentioned at most and kept off screen?

ETA this is not for your kids on bikes game with your friends at your weekly IRL game, online games only.

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If someone is gonna make the room for kid NPCs I’d hope they’d make the room for the proper measures to keep it from encouraging stupid or inappropriate behavior. If done right I think it could certainly help a game feel more vibrant and emotionally real!

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