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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Three_Haligonians" data-source="post: 1620118" data-attributes="member: 19546">I think Patman and John have offered some great advice here.  I was once in a similar situation to your player.  Not really understanding what the drawbacks of playing a character with a high level adjustment were, I created a satyr character.  Now, satyrs have a +7 level adjustment and I found, when paired up with the other 14th level characters that my hitpoints were so crappy that I didn't stand a chance.  I really wanted to play a satyr, so my gm and I sat down and reduced the ECL on the satyr from the monster manual by droping the racial hit dice, skills and saves.  Therefore, my satyr was only a level adjustment of +2.  After that, she could really hold her own in combat.Your player wants to be a tank.  Let him know that by playing a half-dragon, he's really holding himself back in that area by losing out on hit points (this is probably why he's such a 'fraidy cat in battle).  But there are loads of ways of being dragon-like WITHOUT using the half-dragon template.  Check the two examples out that Patman and John have suggested, and, if you've got the miniture's handbook, check out dragon samuri, too, sounds right up his alley.Right, he's obviously not understanding that you've got to give and take in classes.  Let him know that the code is intrinsically part of playing a samuri, just like paladin characters have to put up with that lawful good clause and wizards have to put up with crappy hit points, and rogues have to put up with...hey! what DO rogues have to put up with???  Seriously, the code is part and parcel with the samuri, if he doesn't like it (just like if you had someone who wanted to play a chaotic character and was picking paladin as her class) he should really consider some other classes.  Sit down with him and go over the benefits of other classes.And just to play his side a bit, judging from your original post sounds like you were manhandling him a bit in combat.  He's new, he's trying to figure it all out, let him play a game without getting beat to death for a change and he might gain some confidence in battle.  Even if you have to cheat to do it, ease up on him a bit and hopefully you'll see a change!Hope this helps!T from Three Haligonians</blockquote>

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