Is this fair?

[Arashi Ravenblade]

When i DM your character is only there if you are. No one plays anothers characters.

When i have played i refuse to allow another person to play my character. Id rather miss out on the xp than suffer what the other players would do to me. Such as having me make a sacrifice to become another class. Bull!

 

[Ozmar]

did he take away your levels and convert them to paladin levels? if not, you're down some posessions and i'd say you're justified in overcharging a bit for any magic items you create for the party. the joy of being CN is unless there are definite serious consequences, you can burn the oath for what it's worth. nothing. even if you have to take a level in paladin or die to complete the oath, you can still have some fun with it.

I'm pretty sure he got blasted from CN to LG. Part of the whole "I'm-a-paladin" deal. I also think some or all his Dread Necro levels converted to Paladin. I am thinking of going all the way and getting a belt of gender changing and calling myself Miko Miyazaki.

On the plus, my Cha is high. But the rest of my stats suck. And the change in alignment totally screws with my character's background and personality. He's already been imprisoned, tortured, and driven nearly mad. He was spiralling into a tragic obsession with the undead and a path to immortality. I am not sure if a forced coversion to LG sensibilities would represent a "healing" of his tortured psyche, or another layer of insanity.

Ozmar the Messed-up

(And, Inconsequenti-AL: Yes, they may just be playing a trick on me... but you never can tell sometimes...)

 

[Storyteller01]

Wow!!

The paladin bit is funny; the loss of everything owned at the hands of fellow players, not so much. Is there any legitimate reason the players would have done this, or that the DM would allow it?

PS: Did the other players have to give up anything? Who got the possessions?

 

[Crothian]

PS: Did the other players have to give up anything? Who got the possssions?

Obviously, they gave up their Dread Necromancer

 

[Ozmar]

Obviously, they gave up their Dread Necromancer

Yeah, and the small army of undead I was amassing...

Ozmar the Solo Paladin

 

[Crothian]

Yeah, and the small army of undead I was amassing...

Have the Paladin kill all those undead then demand you get all the XP they are worth.

 

[Catavarie]

I had a L-8 CN Dread Necromancer that I've been playing in an Age of Worms campaign for about six months. In the last game session, I had to leave early, and so (as is our custom) I handed him over to be played by another player. When asking how the rest of the session went, I was informed that the PCs had to make a sacrifice, and that my character volunteered, gave up his worldly possessions, and converted to paladin.

Now, I am normally cool with going along with whatever crazy ideas the DM has in mind, but this strikes me as a trifle... extreme? I am wondering, what do you guys do? If another player is running your character, how far are they "allowed" to go in running him? If the DM wants to screw with your character (imposing gender changes, race changes, class changes, etc...), then how far do you think he can go before you object? Is a player's character sacrosanct? Should a player be allowed to play the character he wants? Or is playing in a DMs campaign essentially giving him permission to screw with your character?

Just curious. Debate!

-Ozmar the New Paladin

First a few questions...do you seem to need to leave in the middle of a session regularly? If so then I could your DMs way of giving you an out of the game. If not then what was this sacrifice made for? Who demanded the sacrifice? If it was a god then would your Dread necro even want to do its bidding? Perhaps it was that your Dread necro was lost in battle and his soul slipped so far away that inorder to reincarnate you they had to give you a new persona. I can think of several reasons why such a thing would happen, lthough without knowing the context in which the events took place I am unable to tell you whether or not it was a reasonable thing for the DM and your group to do.

 

[Aurora]

I'd be pissed. Of course, I am laughing now, but that's cause it's not me
We will "play" another person's character if they have to leave early or whatever, but we always try to do what they would. To take someone's character and completely change the focus is just wrong. Especially if your group is comprised of real roleplayers. I am always moving towards "something" with my characters, they have goals and aspirations. Not that if I was there and a sacrifice needed to be made, I wouldn't necessarily do it, but I would want to be the one to make that decision for my character.

 

[MonkeyDragon]

This sounds an awful lot like something my group would tell someone who missed the session. Nobody ever buys it. I wouldn't, either.

If they actually did do this, it is entirely uncool.

 

[Seeker95]

No but funny.

The only played-by-another-player drastic outcome that I as a DM would permit, or I as a player would condone, is death. Death happens. It can happen regardless of specific player decisions. Converting to another class, picking up a very cursed item, etc... these things simply should not be chosen by anyone other than the PC's regular player.