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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5348632" data-attributes="member: 41321">I agree with all of the other posters that you should start by talking to your DM.  If he/she is a good DM then they should be happy to work with you to make the game more fun, especially if you're a new player and didn't really know what you were getting into when you made the character.Can you give us an example of what magic items you turned down and why?  Was it something like you turned down an axe because your fighter uses swords?  This is also something you might want to talk to the DM about.  In some cases he can subtly change the item from what's written in the module so that it's something that is more attractive to your character.In a game I played a few years ago one of the players (my husband, actually) liked his character, an orc barbarian, in combat but not in RP.  He liked playing the stupid oaf stereotype, but felt like if he was true to that he couldn't participate in a lot of the more high-level role playing.  The DM addressed this by taking a magic item in the module (Blackrazor, from the 3/3.5e Arms and Equipment Guide), changed it from a sword to an axe, and made it intelligent (I don't remember if the original Blackrazor was intelligent).  Because it was an axe and that was the PC's favorite weapon it was a no-brainier for the whole party that the orc should get it, but the orc had such dismal mental skills that the axe could pretty much take control of the orc at will.  The DM told the player what sort of personality the axe had and let him role play the axe in addition to his PC.  The end result was a much more complex PC (it was kinda like he had multiple personality disorder) that allowed him to both be the stupid orc comic relief and participate more meaningfully in decision making and higher-level RP.  The player did an awesome job making that one of the most memorable characters of the campaign.I guess the big point here was that if Blackrazor had been left as a sword then the orc PC would've never picked it up and this opportunity would've been missed.  Maybe your DM can do a little tweaking of item treasure like this for you.</blockquote>

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