Is this fair?

The DM changes your character's class from Necromancer to Paladin. Is this fair?

  • Yes: You knew the risks when you sat down at the table.

    Votes: 8 2.8%
  • Yes: The DM can do that, but probably shouldn't without a player's approval.

    Votes: 40 14.0%
  • No: But that is pretty funny.

    Votes: 170 59.6%
  • No: That's terrible! You should stage a coup and overthrow the DM.

    Votes: 67 23.5%

  • Poll closed .
EyeontheMountain said:
Assuming there is not a joke going on, I wouldn't allow it as a DM or accept it as a player.

Agreed.

As DM, I encourage players to leave their characters with other players when they have to leave. However, if the other players try to screw that character over, I feel it is my job as DM to step in and prevent it.

RC
 

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See, this is why you never let anyone play your character. I actually have a rule in my campaigns: as a DM, I never play player characters. If a player is absent, then the character is absent. Occassionally, I will allow a player to play another player's character, but only when the character's player approves, and I never allow that player to deviate from the standard modus operandi of that character. So in my campaign, the shift from CN necromancer to paladin never would have happened. A DM can force an alignment change from a curse or something similar, but deciding that your character had an epiphany and change of heart is completely out of line. A DM runs everything in the world, everything except the player characters.
 

In my games, if a player cannot make the session or has to leave early/arrive late, another player controls the character but I as DM can veto anything they try to do if its not in keeping with the character. Death can happen though.

In this case, I wouldn't have allowed them to force an unavailable players PC to take this.

Its funny, so I'm guessing that this is a trick by your players.
 

Nyeshet said:
No offense intended, but you did hand your character over to another player when you left. That grants them the right to run it as they see fit (although I admit this seems to be an extreme example, and I believe it went against the alignment of your character).

Look, I know gamers in general are like rabid weasels, but what kind of douchebags do you guys play with? Does no one game with FRIENDS anymore? Its absurd that even a FEW people support this style.
 

Normally if a player had to leave early and there is no way his character could leave too then the other players play it. The reality is though they put about .001 percent of the attention into running that PC as theirs and it ends up being underplayed. However it doesn't get screwed up quite as bad as you are saying yours did. As a DM though I step in if they are trying to do something I know that PC would never do. IF it dies in combat or something though that is just tough luck.
 

I'd have a good laugh.

Then I'd keep on playing my character as he was (all Dread Necromancer), ignoring any strange implications that he's any other way--I didn't make the decision to change class, so the character has remained as he was. I'd tell the DM to talk to me directly if he has a problem, rather than being a passive-aggressive twit.
 



Bagpuss said:
When is the next session? Can we discover this is a joke or not?

Next session is tonight. I have my character statted out as a paladin and as a dread necromancer - just in case.

Ozmar the Prepared
 

This all reminds me of a situation when I was a wee lad playing AD&D with my brother and some buddies. My brother had a CE Fighter named Amalric who killed the PC of one of the main DM's of the group, threw him off a mountain side during an adventure, wend and got the body, burned it to ash, and using his plane hopping amulet buried the ashes on another plane. Well next time my brother shows up he find that the other characters of that DM and his brother and buddies got together. Attacked Amalric in a bar en masse. They killed him, raised him back, then put a helm of alignment change on him, and a girdle of gender change as well. So he shows up and finds out that his CE Fighter with 18/100 strength is now a LG female half elf who loves to frolic.

We were but wee lads though. :)
 

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