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Originally Posted by walkertexasdruid
Is ok to use some elements from your favorite books, such as Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, and Terry Brooks' Shanarra series, in your D&D campaign? For some reason the last player I DMed for really objected to me using some of those ideas. I do not know what his problem was, when he DMed he had Sephiroth and Sidney from Vagrant Story in his campaign. Did I do anything wrong?
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It's bad when NPC's overshadow your heroes. Don't give them more screentime, don't let them show up and overshadow and Dues Ex your game.
If you want to offhandedly mention Elminster or Drizzt, you're welcome to it- just don't ruin things by having Eliminster show up when things are going badly and fix everything.
The campaign books Cormyr, Shadowdale and Aunoroch (Forgotten Realms 3.5 books) do this wonderfully. You hear about all these heroes and they all rely on your characters, and they're reasonably low level.
I'd advise browsing those books if you can get access to them for examples on how to effectively use legendary NPC's in your game. [Also you totally kill Scyllua Darkhope in Shadowdale. Seriously!)