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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6061506" data-attributes="member: 5143">I feel your pain. I wish I had a good solution for you. My players are the same. Have been for years. Even when I've entirely switched around the players in the group, they've ended up with similar attitudes. I've tried giving them roleplaying benefits that are non transferable. They don't care. They get bored with a character and will ask me to retire it so they can play a new one. If I won't let them, they run head first into danger and get themselves killed.I've tried starting them at lower levels if they make up a new character and keeping them at the same xp if they get resurrected to encourage them to keep the same characters. It reduced the amount of times they switched characters, but it didn't stop them. It still happened so often that the entire make up of the party would be different about every week or two of game time. Like you, I felt it was kind of silly to have that many adventurers, especially high level ones just roaming around ready to join the party. I eventually gave up. None of my players seemed to care that the group was entirely different. They were more than willing to hand wave the situation and never bring it up. So, I eventually just went with it. I realized that if 6 others had no problem with it and were having fun that I'd just try to minimize it the best I could and deal. In one of my extremely high level groups, I just decided to explain it in game. I invented a group called Barricade who vowed to keep the multiverse safe from super powerful threats. They hired impossibly powerful adventurers from various alternate worlds where they were some of the most powerful people on their planets or planes. Then they sent them wherever they were needed most. And that was often where the PCs were. They used teleportation magic to teleport new members directly to the PCs. They'd do it without them even asking as the PCs were asked to wear a magic item that sensed their vitals back to Barricade. If they died, their body would teleport back to HQ. They'd attempt to bring it back to life. If the person refused, they'd teleport a new member to the party.  It had the benefit of encouraging them to keep the same character(no down time while they wait for the party to leave the dungeon in a couple hours to get him resurrected, my out of character announcement that I'd like them to keep their same characters, and making them start at lower level if they switched). It also explained how they were able to create new characters when hey decided to. Though, even the players thought the group was kind of cheesy. But it worked.</blockquote>

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