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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4431704" data-attributes="member: 29398">What ever happened to the idea that if the party has a hole in its lineup once the players have rolled up what they want to play, they just go to town and recruit an NPC for the job?&nbsp; Need a Thief?&nbsp; Go recruit one!&nbsp; Or, better yet, roll up a second character of your own and run both.....She was my attempt to build a 1e Illusionist using 3e rules, only with bad enough stats she wouldn't have been allowed to be an Illusionist in 1e!&nbsp; Went from raw 1st level well into 11th in a slow-advancing game before getting perma-killed by her own party after her Rod of Wonder (which she built herself) produced a fireball where it shouldn't have...In her case, it was because I could have her be perfectly in character doing unwise things...in other words, I could play like an idiot and get away with it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for the other discussion, about DMs tailoring adventures to the characters in the party, I say poppycock.&nbsp; The DM drops the adventure hooks, the characters bite, and if the hook they bite on leads to an adventure that doesn't suit them they always (well, almost always) have the option of turning around and going home, or looking for another hook to bite.&nbsp; But that's the players' choice...they also have the option of plowing ahead and trying to complete an &quot;unsuitable&quot; adventure, if they so decide.Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 4431704, member: 29398"] What ever happened to the idea that if the party has a hole in its lineup once the players have rolled up what they want to play, they just go to town and recruit an NPC for the job? Need a Thief? Go recruit one! Or, better yet, roll up a second character of your own and run both..... She was my attempt to build a 1e Illusionist using 3e rules, only with bad enough stats she wouldn't have been allowed to be an Illusionist in 1e! Went from raw 1st level well into 11th in a slow-advancing game before getting perma-killed by her own party after her Rod of Wonder (which she built herself) produced a fireball where it shouldn't have... In her case, it was because I could have her be perfectly in character doing unwise things...in other words, I could play like an idiot and get away with it! :) As for the other discussion, about DMs tailoring adventures to the characters in the party, I say poppycock. The DM drops the adventure hooks, the characters bite, and if the hook they bite on leads to an adventure that doesn't suit them they always (well, almost always) have the option of turning around and going home, or looking for another hook to bite. But that's the players' choice...they also have the option of plowing ahead and trying to complete an "unsuitable" adventure, if they so decide. Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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