"""non-player characters, the latter similar in most respects to player characters except that the player will not have full control over them""
But you can't customize the NPCs as you can customize the PCs for example. Why do you consider this to be a flaw? What is wrong with differentiating the 2 types of characters in your party? ""non-player characters, the latter similar in most respects to player characters except that the player will not have full control over them"". Is that a flaw too?   "