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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2466956" data-attributes="member: 30035">Okay, I'm just sort of mildly venting here. There is no real solution for my problem, and it's not a serious problem anyway. :\  I've been roleplaying for about 10 years with a particular GM/player. He runs more games for our group than anyone else, primarily because it's his only social activity and if he didn't GM there wouldn't be a game every weekend. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy his games, but not as much as I used to. When I was new to gaming I would play just about anything and didn't care if it was little more than hack-n-slash. But these days I want a little more roleplaying out of my roleplaying, and that's just not his forte'. His games are pretty much "mission of the week" stories, with combat required every session.  My biggest gripe is getting to be that he doesn't believe in character death. Ever. He will bend over backward to keep PCs alive. So I have no opportunity of playing something new in his games. He also doesn't like to just swap out a PC for a new one. I just asked him if I could as I'm finding my current PC in his Greyhawk game to be getting a bit stale. He said no.  He did recently allow another player to change PCs, but it was after a long-drawn-out struggle between what the player wanted to do with his character and what the GM wanted. The player ended up retiring his original PC for reasons he was very unhappy about, but the GM wouldn't bend on allowing him to temporarily retire the character, so the player was forced to permanently retire the character and make a new one. Then the GM nixed a feat the player really wanted for the new character, so the player had to make another new one. This is partly the player's problem, I realize (he could have made the PC anyway without that feat), but the only reason the GM banned the feat was because it didn't come from the PHB or Complete books - a requirement he had not previously expressed to the group. In fact the player's old character had a feat from the FR setting book, so it didn't make sense to arbitrarily say no to this feat. Complaining to this GM is really not an option. He doesn't have a thorough understanding of the way other people think so it would be like speaking Chinese to him. We don't really want to stop gaming with him because no one is miserable in his games. We're just vaguely dissatisfied.  Okay, enough venting. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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