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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 5144825" data-attributes="member: 9053">I had a player who did this incessantly, and it bothered me for a while, but eventually I just decided this was what he liked about the game (the novelty of trying a new character build, that is). The plot points of the game gradually became about the characters who were long standing members of the group, and I tended to only use his characters in short term scenarios.One thing that I did with 4E was use the treasure parcel system to keep the game balanced with these frequent changes, since in prior editions the group tended to end up with way too much magic from all these characters leaving. What I did in 4E was to say if a character started play at 6th level, he'd get a 7th, 6th and 5th level item, and assuming the group still had the old character's items, that meant they had "found" a 7th, 6th and 5th level treasure. That worked out quite well, as it tended to reduce the tendency for the other players to say "can your next character have a bag of holding? We'll need that when you're gone..."I found that in the end giving the players what they want in a game was the most important thing, and this tended to help out.--Steve</blockquote>