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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 2379654" data-attributes="member: 22424">There was a player like this in a Vampire game one of my friends ran a few years ago. In his case, the problem was that he was reading all the books for the setting at a rate of about 1 a week, so every week he wanted to create a new character to take advantage of all the kewl new stuff he was discovering. Eventually, the GM got sick of it, and told him he couldn't bring in any more characters (even if the current one died!). I doubt this same solution will work in your case - the GM didn't like the player in my example, and would have been quite happy to see him go.I think it's quite likely that the player in your example is probably not entirely sure of what he wants to play. So, he'll create a new character, play it for a while, find it's just not grabbing his attention, and wanting to move on. With the new character always being weaker than the party average, and therefore not pulling his weight, the problem is exaggerated.I can't think of a solution that is guaranteed to work off the top of my head. One thing that might work is if you adjust the campaign slightly. If your group is willing, consider the following:The adventuring company consists of 1 fewer PCs than players (unless you have multiple PCs per player, of course). Each time the group takes on a mission, they hire on the services of a "mission specialist", played by your uncertain player. This new character is vouched for by the party's patron/mentor/other trusted source, so that the group know they can trust him (solving the "why should we let you join us?" issue). Also, if the DM is willing, the character could be of the same level as the party average, or a level or two below, as desired. Even better, the DM could allow the player to amass XP, which then carry over to whichever character he is playing at the time.Over time, the likelihood is that the player will settle on a single character he likes, and your problems will be over. Until then, you would have changed the game so that this rotating cast works, and hopefully cut out the tensions in the group.Of course, the other solution is for the whole group to just tell the guy to stop changing character all the time, but that's probably not the best thing to do  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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