When a player turns into an NPC

It's good to finally have some useful NPC's in Honeywood...


SERIES PLAYLISTS

[kentho]

This was how Ben glitched into a sentient NPC and couldn't escape from the game, and no one believed him ever since.

[WormiT]

I can only imagine him explaining the quest like:
"My kin has journeyed to fight the monks of hergspire alone. I would accompany her, but alas, my work is needed here in Honeywood. Please make sure she is safe, and help her on her quest, adventurer!"

[johndaniels]

"Then the players all abandoned the quest to start a business."

Every DM's nightmare scenario.

[st_riddick]

The quest is to go help his friend at with those monks. He can’t leave his post soo many orders.

[BUBO]

You either die a adventurer, or you live long enough to become NPC.

[lolio]

I feel like this is going to turn to lore, the npc that is aware but people think it is an easter egg, qnd Ben turning to an npc. The new era in the series has begun.

[jonathonellis]

if you notice, after he makes that fire chestplate, the player tag goes away

[TrickyTalon]

Ben's character is finally getting karma for all the times he said "skip" to the other NPCs

[Gadzinisko]

"I used to be an adventurer like you, then I got a master crafting skill."

[MrMrx]

I'm actually starting to believe that Baelin was actually a player who enjoyed fishing so much he lost track of time and became an NPC

[parkerking]

This is honestly a genius skit. love it so much.

[tekkenryu]

He has reached the master level that unlocks the Hidden Class: NPC.

[KnowItAllDM]

New Lore: when the game was in development, there were no NPCs, it was a game where all humanoids you interacted with were, in fact, players.
However, the development team became so engrosed in their side roles, that they became NPCs. Greg, Bodger, Baelin, Baradun, etc, were the original Dev team.
When the game released, players whose side talents/crafting became more useful as NPCs actually became NPCs. Over time, the now-NPCs forgot they were ever players.
Each new update/expansion increases the need for higher-tier NPCs, so the game turns players with perfected skills into appropriate NPCs.

[thatpunkcatte]

This happened to my friend in FFXIV. He got top level crafting to get us geared for the end game raids.
He never made it to the raids.

[tejdeep]

There could be a great movie or series based on this premise!

[gadman]

I actually remember there was a quest in WoW I did during Cataclysm where the player momentarily took the place of an NPC quest giver. You had the giant exclamation mark above your head and everything. It was legit one of the funniest quests I ever did in that game. The NPC you were standing in for at the time provided color commentary on the "Adventurers" you handed out quests to. You later ended up doing a quest chain where you helped them out of the trouble they got into while fulfilling their quest. That part was funny as well. I remember one of them needed help because despite being very high level, he couldn't swim.

[src]

This guy must have been a legendary player who also went viral enough to have an impact pop culture in the wider gaming community, then tragically passed away IRL so the game developers choose to play tribute to them by placing an NPC into the game based on on his ingame avatar.

[victorrutledge]

The strangest situation is the PC who is sitting at the table and has invested in the "Table of many things" so that all the other Players use his time to become better equipped. I got one of those crafting tables in a module, it was oh twenty-five years ago, and my character hasn't finished all the requests yet. he used to be a Fighter/Magic user/ Cleric, but now he runs the shop at Fire Mountain.

[stevenxiong]

The video about Alan warning the adventurers about a "crazy" guy makes so much sense now.

[Amin-hvtt]

And then he marched on a quest to restore himself, to convince all that he isn't an npc only to find his efforts ending in vain. Having been glitched into becoming an npc, the lack of acceptance from other players, being treated like an AI, constantly having his dialogues skipped slowly drove him towards madness until he finally met another who faced the same predicament, though the latter had already lost himself. However, the two joined forces and went on to become the muggers of Honeywood...