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<blockquote data-quote="OrionNo9" data-source="post: 2699597" data-attributes="member: 38361"><p>Hello Guy,</p><p></p><p>I am the best friend, whom bat was talking about in the start of this thread. I will exsplain the "problem" in a bit more detail, or at least give me view.</p><p></p><p>Our DM who, in my option, was not ready to DM. Started this campain last summer. He wanted to DM a high level campain using all the 3.0 and 3.5 Wizard of the Cost Books. When I started looking for a character concept I found the shifter prc form Masters of the Wild and the concept of playing a shapechanger, excited my imangation. However I could easily see that that prc was over-powered. So I started looking for a 3.5 update. While I was looking for an update I found a fan update, and I also found the Master of Many Forms PrC in Complete Adventurer. I asked the DM to look over those two PrC's and tell me which one he wanted me to play about a month before the first game, he never got back to me so I played the published PrC. After playing for a few weeks the DM started complain about my large and bigger forms. Later when when the a majordity of our group could no longer play, the DM told me that since we are getting some new player that I had to stop playing the Master of Many Forms and start playing the shifter PrC I found on the internet, and that I also was loosing 3 levels. I did not like loosing levels just becuase we where getting new player but I said fine, I did not like having to completly re-do my pc, but I did it without complaining.</p><p></p><p>Now we are playing our first game with the 'new' group and my new pc. And we have two battles. In the first one the bad guys keep transporting and I never get within ten feet of them, however the rest of the group easily kills them. Then at the end of the night we have one final battle in this battle I was able to hit one of the 8 bad guys before the fight was over. This is how this battle went, Round 1: I changed into a Stone Golem. Our groups 2 spell casters kill 7 bad guys before they even get to act. Round 2: I hit the bad guy in front of me miss once hit the second time do 2d10+9 damage, the rest of the group attacks him, his SR keeps him from being murdered by the spell casters. he then attacks the scout in the group and misses. Round 3: I do a full round attack can only hit once do another 2d10+9 damage, spell caster overcome SR and easily kill the bad guy. The next day the DM E-mails me and says you pc is way too powerful, you can not longer do theses things. What considers me is first of all how am I too powerful? I would like for the DM to tell me and show how I did things that where just to powerful. But the one coment that the DM made is what made me mad, since you are playing a fan made PRC I should be able to change it as much as I want because it was not play-tested by Wizard. He was the one who told me I had to play that PrC class!</p><p>This is just one thing in a line of problems we have had with this DM, and if was not the fact that I know the DM outside of D&D and that I would really hurt his feeling by quiting I would have done so already. When I try to help him out by telling him of other things he could do or try he gets upset, he has made it clear that he does not want help and my help is unwanted. I beleive what Bat was looking for when he posted this thread was how we could improve this game without offending our DM.</p><p></p><p>~OrionNo9</p><p>P.S. I am sorry for any spelling/grammer errors I wrote this in a hurry between classes</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OrionNo9, post: 2699597, member: 38361"] Hello Guy, I am the best friend, whom bat was talking about in the start of this thread. I will exsplain the "problem" in a bit more detail, or at least give me view. Our DM who, in my option, was not ready to DM. Started this campain last summer. He wanted to DM a high level campain using all the 3.0 and 3.5 Wizard of the Cost Books. When I started looking for a character concept I found the shifter prc form Masters of the Wild and the concept of playing a shapechanger, excited my imangation. However I could easily see that that prc was over-powered. So I started looking for a 3.5 update. While I was looking for an update I found a fan update, and I also found the Master of Many Forms PrC in Complete Adventurer. I asked the DM to look over those two PrC's and tell me which one he wanted me to play about a month before the first game, he never got back to me so I played the published PrC. After playing for a few weeks the DM started complain about my large and bigger forms. Later when when the a majordity of our group could no longer play, the DM told me that since we are getting some new player that I had to stop playing the Master of Many Forms and start playing the shifter PrC I found on the internet, and that I also was loosing 3 levels. I did not like loosing levels just becuase we where getting new player but I said fine, I did not like having to completly re-do my pc, but I did it without complaining. Now we are playing our first game with the 'new' group and my new pc. And we have two battles. In the first one the bad guys keep transporting and I never get within ten feet of them, however the rest of the group easily kills them. Then at the end of the night we have one final battle in this battle I was able to hit one of the 8 bad guys before the fight was over. This is how this battle went, Round 1: I changed into a Stone Golem. Our groups 2 spell casters kill 7 bad guys before they even get to act. Round 2: I hit the bad guy in front of me miss once hit the second time do 2d10+9 damage, the rest of the group attacks him, his SR keeps him from being murdered by the spell casters. he then attacks the scout in the group and misses. Round 3: I do a full round attack can only hit once do another 2d10+9 damage, spell caster overcome SR and easily kill the bad guy. The next day the DM E-mails me and says you pc is way too powerful, you can not longer do theses things. What considers me is first of all how am I too powerful? I would like for the DM to tell me and show how I did things that where just to powerful. But the one coment that the DM made is what made me mad, since you are playing a fan made PRC I should be able to change it as much as I want because it was not play-tested by Wizard. He was the one who told me I had to play that PrC class! This is just one thing in a line of problems we have had with this DM, and if was not the fact that I know the DM outside of D&D and that I would really hurt his feeling by quiting I would have done so already. When I try to help him out by telling him of other things he could do or try he gets upset, he has made it clear that he does not want help and my help is unwanted. I beleive what Bat was looking for when he posted this thread was how we could improve this game without offending our DM. ~OrionNo9 P.S. I am sorry for any spelling/grammer errors I wrote this in a hurry between classes [/QUOTE]
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