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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Amazing Dingo" data-source="post: 1880421" data-attributes="member: 23353">I had a DM, who was also a good friend of mine, be somewhat like this.  We both had the same interests in games, movies, TV shows, books, etc.  We'd often times recommend one to the other with the usual result of both of us enjoying it and being able to talk about it.Cool...However, whenever he runs across an idea he likes in a game or show, he steals it...cool.  I have no problem with that.  Piecemealing things together in a campaign is a fine idea in my book.  And he's always been great as a DM in making them fit smoothly.Nonetheless, it was always the next thing that came into his plotline and a few months later it was gone and then came the next game, show, comic, etc. into the plotline/world.  As I said, he always made them wiggle in smoothly and nicely, but it was just annoying cause I knew as soon as he found something he'd like we'd be seeing it again in the game.  And now I'm having him as a player with me the DM and as soon as he saw Eberron and the tv show Full Metal Alchemist, he wanted to play an Artificer in a world that had just a few weeks before been planned as low magic.  Now, he always puts a ton of thoughts and ideas into his characters, which is great!  He does an excellent job of bringing them out and flushing out great backgrounds with plenty of hooks, but I get tired of him changing his mind.  Since he's changed his mind three times now its pushed his intro into the campaign back now nearly three months.  Not quite necessarily the same, but close enough in my book.</blockquote>

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