Do you play more than one character at a time?

[EyeontheMountain]

I voted, one at a time.

Though in my group, which is me (DM) and two buddies, we have to play gestalt to make a functional party. We tried two characters each, breifly, but it did not work out well at all.

 

[Lord Rasputin]

I'm essentially a character slut. I could play a different character every night. Playing the same character over and over and over and over is like always being the shoe in Monopoly.

Yeah, well, I'm always the little dog. I've been the little dog in every game since I was a toddler in the late 1970s.

And I've had many characters, but I am always playing a certain necromancer in at least one game. As for types, I tend to go through phases, where I play a particular class more often than others; it has been specialist wizards lately. When I was in junior high, it was fighter-types (especially monks, in those 1e days, they were hella powerful), in high school, thieves, in college ... I forget; maybe I was still playing kender thieves.

As to the poll, I do have one wizard with a barbarian cohort. I wouldn't play two characters without Leadership, and I always ban playing two characters without Leadership (or the relevant game system equivalent, like points in Ally) when I GM. Multiple characters are a distraction.

 

[KenSeg]

We have played with two characters per player in our group for 20 years about 95% of the time due to small group size. Generally there are only three players and the DM and we have found that five to six characters lets us cover the bases well. It also enables us to roleplay differing personality types in the same game. Not easy to do for some people but it has worked for us.

-KenSeg
-gaming since 1978

 

[Lanefan]

I usually play 2 at a time when allowed, and allow it as DM. I usually draw the line at 2, though, except in unusual circumstances.

Why? So when one dies I still have something to do. And, variety. If I've got one with brains and one without, I can think as a player and still do dumb things. Etc.

Lanefan

 

[Drowbane]

Currently, in our Shackled City campaign, I play 2 characters.

Nobody (self included) wanted to make a cleric... so I took one as a cohort.

 

[Corbert]

I've only ever played one character at a time, and thats what I'm comfortable with. However, as a DM several years a go I had a player request to play 2 characters, who were unknowingly brothers, so I allowed it. Later in the game another player character got seperated in time from the party and the player with 2 characters agreed to roll up a "temp" character to run so the player in the past wouldn't be alone. And when the they caught up with the rest of the party that player now had 3 characters to play .

 

[Rl'Halsinor]

I have played with 2 characters but only because the group was too small for 1 PC per player. It all had to do with survival.

However, my choice is to play one and one only and luckily this has been the morm for the past 4 years.

 

[Sejs]

I generally play only one character.

However to be fair, in one game I'm currently playing both my character and another player's cohort. So, sorta one character, sorta two.

 

[Hussar]

Chalk me up for the 1 at a time as well. I do remember trying more than one a long time ago, but, after that, we just adjusted adventures to fit 3-5 PC's.

 

[RFisher]

I try to avoid playing more than one PC at a time, but I'm happy to do it when the group feels it is necessary.