Here's an interesting, if hypothetical, question for all you DM's here. How would you handle a player who wanted his character to have multiple different personalities, each with their own abilities and strengths?
Here are my thoughts. Mental ability scores change to reflect the new individual's mindset, physical ones stay the same or go down when a new personality comes out (using the Primary personality as the baseline, 'this is where they max at' type thing). Each one has fewer class levels than the primary personality (to be referred to as the 'dominant' personality), but of different classes. Then, the player or the DM decides if the character is aware of their extra personalities and modifies the characters expereinces accordingly. For instance, here's the same circumstances, in three different ways. Each uses a 5th level, NG human Fighter as the Dominant, and the one he swaps with is a Barbarian with one or two fewer class levels. In the first example, the fighter has no knowledge of his multiple personalities; in the second, he has limited knowledge of them; and in the third, he has full knowledge and awareness of them.
1: After slaying four or five Orcs, you see among them a single, new warrior, standing proud and tall, calling out for battle. As you begin to plan out how to overcome and defeat him, you suddenly black out. After an indeterminable amount of time, you come to, and the warrior is lying on the ground in front of you, dead, your sword piercing upwards through his skull.
2: After slaying a number of Orcs, you see a single, powerful warrior standing among them, calling out a challenge to any who think themselves his equal. As you hear his call, you begin to feel as though you are floating, and you hear your voice saying "I accept! You shall fall before me, puny weakling!" Your body charges forward, and though you experience the battle between yourself and the Orc, it is as though someone else is fighting in your place. As though you are seeing it as an illusion that someone else did and is replaying for you.
3: After battling against the Orcish hoards for several minutes, you see a single warrior, the corpses of your comrades spread among him, looking for a new foe, as you begin to move towards him, you hear a familiar voice in your head saying "Let me take him! I haven't had a good fight in so long!" You respond "You want him, Therinar? All right, go get him!" and recede control to your Barbarian aspect, who charges him, his rage fueling his strength and allowing your sword to pierce his armor and skewer his heart relatively quickly.
Here are my thoughts. Mental ability scores change to reflect the new individual's mindset, physical ones stay the same or go down when a new personality comes out (using the Primary personality as the baseline, 'this is where they max at' type thing). Each one has fewer class levels than the primary personality (to be referred to as the 'dominant' personality), but of different classes. Then, the player or the DM decides if the character is aware of their extra personalities and modifies the characters expereinces accordingly. For instance, here's the same circumstances, in three different ways. Each uses a 5th level, NG human Fighter as the Dominant, and the one he swaps with is a Barbarian with one or two fewer class levels. In the first example, the fighter has no knowledge of his multiple personalities; in the second, he has limited knowledge of them; and in the third, he has full knowledge and awareness of them.
1: After slaying four or five Orcs, you see among them a single, new warrior, standing proud and tall, calling out for battle. As you begin to plan out how to overcome and defeat him, you suddenly black out. After an indeterminable amount of time, you come to, and the warrior is lying on the ground in front of you, dead, your sword piercing upwards through his skull.
2: After slaying a number of Orcs, you see a single, powerful warrior standing among them, calling out a challenge to any who think themselves his equal. As you hear his call, you begin to feel as though you are floating, and you hear your voice saying "I accept! You shall fall before me, puny weakling!" Your body charges forward, and though you experience the battle between yourself and the Orc, it is as though someone else is fighting in your place. As though you are seeing it as an illusion that someone else did and is replaying for you.
3: After battling against the Orcish hoards for several minutes, you see a single warrior, the corpses of your comrades spread among him, looking for a new foe, as you begin to move towards him, you hear a familiar voice in your head saying "Let me take him! I haven't had a good fight in so long!" You respond "You want him, Therinar? All right, go get him!" and recede control to your Barbarian aspect, who charges him, his rage fueling his strength and allowing your sword to pierce his armor and skewer his heart relatively quickly.
