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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2385530" data-attributes="member: 9254">Woof, you people are *nice.*  I, apparently, am a RBDM on this matter.  Barring freaky character death at introduction, your character is your character for that session.  New characters should stick around for at least 2-3 sessions before being dropped.  You get 2, *maybe* 3 chances to make a character that works in the game.  I don't promise your character will be introduced next session; it may be a while before the game is at a point you can introduce a new PC with any rational chance of success.   I mitigate it in part by forcing new players to watch a session before they make their character.  I give them basic hooks into the party and provide some guidance on what background origins are unacceptable (the party will not work with certain races or religions, for instance).   Before a single die is rolled, I try to vet the concept to ensure nothing inimicable is created.   As feats & the like are chosen I try to point out how the party will react to or integrate with these choices.  Sometimes personalities just clash but if more than 2 characters get trashed by personality conflict, the player doesn't jibe with the game.  I have sympathy; I encountered a game where I went through 4 characters.  The first I ran for a year or two but it wasn't a comfortable fit for me.  The second one turned out to overshadow the existing combat characters so we turned it to an NPC after 2 sessions.  The third ran into a key NPC while they were doing the double-agent thing and I figured the group were traitors by association.  The difference is that I slogged it out with the first character, the second's removal caused a group-wide sigh of relief, and the third was a comedy of errors.  (I really wanted to play him, too!)  This guy needs to buckle down and join the team or sit out a while and figure out how to make a character that actually works.</blockquote>

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