Character Change

[Eccles]

I liked the idea of running a few solo games to get a character up to speed, but really don't have the time.

What I do is give the players an XP bonus (of 500 for 1st level and 300 for each further level) for coming up with a decent backstory.

Dying causes the player's next character to lose a level (or else my players would never use Raise Dead spells.

Retiring characters 'respawn' with 1/2 a level's XP lost.

However they can make the vast majority of this up by supplying a decent backstory.

 

[Henry]

Latency -

Are you so thoroughly dissatisfied with your character that giving him levels of another class would still leave you dissatisfied? Do you see yourself in more of a noncombat role, or do you wish to take it to all combat, all the time?

If the former, adding levels of either rogue or bard to the existing PC can help immensely. The beauty of a cleric is the variety of spells that can help either noncombat or combat.

If the latter, adding levels of fighter can make you a true "holy warrior" as another poster described. Enhancing spells in the PHB are rife for making a personal behemoth.

Like Landshark, I think you should first determine if your existing PC is totally unworkable.