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[[I Thought It Meant|No, not a character who happens to be]] "[[Chick Magnet|a player]]."
This concept represents the in-game character controlled by the
Sometimes, the term PC only refers to [[The Protagonist]], particularly if they are created by the player, while [[NPC]] is used even for [[Player Party|other party members]] who the player still controls but are preexisting characters within the game world, rather than a personal avatar.
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* [[Sociopathic Hero|Sociopathic]], only caring about what benefits the party (or in some cases, just themselves)
* [[It's All About Me|Self-important]], often striding into the spotlight regardless of how appropriate that would be to the situation they're in
* [[Spanner in
* [[Crazy Awesome]]; due to the nature of such games, PCs tend to either [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|succeed magnificently]] or [[Stuff Blowing Up|fail]] [[Total Party Kill|spectacularly]]
This largely stems from the PCs being [[Theory of Narrative Causality|the main characters in their story]] and, more importantly, ''[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|knowing it]]''.
Finally, a wise word to all tropers: don't conflate
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