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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hella_Tellah" data-source="post: 4537377" data-attributes="member: 52669">I had a player pitch a new character concept to me last night--unfortunately, it's pretty much the same as his last character concept.  The guy always wants to play a character with multiple personalities.  I just can't stomach another character with multiple personalities; it doesn't fit with the kind of tone I want to set in my game, so I'm going to ask him for something different.I can tease out the reasons he likes this kind of character.  It gives him a little bit of variety, so he can play more than one sort of person.  It also gives him an excuse to have the character do strange things and avoid some of the consequences by having the "main" personality unaware of the weird things the other personalities do.  He's the kind of player who has fun by throwing monkey wrenches in things and failing hilariously--which is sometimes a welcome addition to the game, don't get me wrong here.I guess that, fundamentally, a character with multiple personalities is just too much cliché for me.  I don't like it when it's Edward Norton doing it, I don't like it when it's Kevin Spacey, and I don't like it at the table.If you DM, what kinds of characters have you had to say no to?  As a player, has a DM crushed your dreams of having a strange character?</blockquote>