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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Timeron Malachi" data-source="post: 2383729" data-attributes="member: 32251">I've been involved in a few different games where we've had this problem before: A player comes up with a PC who's got a great hook, or a neat power, or some unique trait, or whatever, but then it just doesn't work out the way they want. Sometimes, the character would leave for more or less legitimate reasons...dying, crippling disease, whatever. Sometimes, the player just decided that their PC just wasn't strong enough. This particular player actually went through 3 characters in *one* session, all in the same module. I was running it, and since he was my friend, I was inclined to simply allow him to make the change. However, it puts a lot of strain on other people who want to play their character "realistically", where they aren't just going to always trust whoever they meet in a sewer under the city. After the first adventure, he had gone from a wizard/fighter, to a Planar Ranger, to a rogue. He wanted to switch the rogue out for a warlock, his favorite class.  I said, "Fine...just switch his class levels, but the character doesn't change...same name and all that."  That worked for a while, but the player eventually stopped coming to game night, since he almost never got as much spotlight as he wanted...even when I tried to make his character the most relevant, or the most central to everything, he'd just take off or get annoyed with his dice rolls.  I suppose that's not all that helpful...sorry...I guess an idea to try, would be, if he just wants to try out stuff in new books, allow him to switch out a few feats or even class levels, just so long as his overall character doesn't really change. That's a bit of suspension of disbelief, too, but I guess it's better than, "Oh, you seem like a trustworthy fellow, why don't you adventure with us?" Perhaps put him in XP debt, or give him an ECL when he does it, and that might keep him from changing his character every month, when a new book comes out.</blockquote>

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