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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8119142" data-attributes="member: 29398">Any one or more of a number of reasons:--- the other players are your friends outside of game and this is the most reliable place to see them--- it's the only game going (that you can be a player in rather than a DM)--- you're hoping to ride it out and that once that premise has run its course the campaign will eventually get to something more interesting--- the character you've got is just too much fun to abandon--- your interest in the campaign lies in actively trying to upend, twist, or change the premise--- the same DM has run good campaigns in the pastRun it as scheduled.  The players will either succeed or fail in whatever they're trying; if they succeed the DM might have to adapt.In your example with the casters in a low-magic game: let 'em run.  Unless the party's unusually large, having 3 casters means they've less of a front line, and melee combat - a common enough occurrence - will soon be their nemesis.  They'll either learn or they won't... <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That's a huge and often-wrong assumption, that there's a) thousands of other games out there and-or b) that said player wants to play with anyone else.I can fathom it all day long, as if my character idea or concept makes me that player then that player I will be.Pitch a heroic game where the PCs badn together to defend the world from threats and you could end up with the D&D version of the Avengers, who - even though they were all 'heroes' - fought like cats among themselves.  In D&D half of them would have died at the hands of the other half at some point. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That said, a single player usually can't make that much difference.  A goodly party can usually either rein in or take out a single evil PC, for example.  The DM might have a headache when half or more of the players go rogue in the same direction, as in your three-caster example above, and again my answer is to just let it run, be flexible, and see what happens.</blockquote>

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