Playable NPC chars

.. And no, I don't mean guys like Rurik or Adelbern.

Basically what i'm suggesting is access to a playable npc model, for example the Fadden Hathorn base model for a proph based char which could be played thru like a normal PC would be. However this toon would not have access to player armour but the usual npc sets. IE in old Ascalon the crafters player Ascalon set would be replaced by an Ascalon Guards set.

I would put some limits on this tho, such as 1 npc toon per account and due to npc models being reused in PVE often, they should be banned from all PVP aspects.

I realise this most likely won't happen due to time and coding issues but it seemed like a fun idea and I thought i'd throw it out there.

Was going to add something else too but i've forgotten what it was .. i'll edit when I remember lol.

"Playable NPC" - that's where your idea goes wrong.

This.

Overall, even if they did put this in for GW2 or something, I think it would be too big of a project, and it wouldn't really help the game at all. There'd be pretty much no reason to use it except for a few chuckles. Not worth all the time and effort it would take to implement it.

might be easier just get more npc tonics that work in explorables also... or get one of those already there...

/notsigned for your suggestion though

I agree, that's what I was thinking coming into this post.

Well sounds like your interested in the skin. This is already achievable through tonics and costumes...maybe not the specific skin you want but there are most likely more tonics and skins to come.

/2 Stars sorta addressed already

Not quite what I meant, I wouldn't want to play thru 3 whole chapters and an expansion looking like Fadden Hathorn, the idea was to get other sets too, Ascalon army, White Mantle, Shining Blade etc. I just used him/his model as an example.


And yes, I do realise calling this thread 'Playable NPC's' is quite possibly the dumbest thing I could've done but it just never occured to me at the time lol.

Did you consider http://www.guildwars.com/warinkryta/costumes/

that addresses playing like white mantle and shining blade.

...you want to play a non-playable character?
Thats like asking to breathe underwater. Oh wait...they're doing that in GW2...hmm.

It had to be posted... sublimation of the general paradoxality of postmodern humanity... meh...