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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ellie_the_Elf" data-source="post: 2436985" data-attributes="member: 17018">......who insists on playing a completely inappropriate character for the campaign I'm running?In my last campaign, we were just starting a big mostly dungeon adventure, and one PC got killed. He decided to make a new character, and chose a rogue. Fair enough since the party didn't have one- until they get to their first locked door, which he fails to open after numerous attempts- Why? 'Oh, I'm a wilderness-based rogue. I didn't put points into open lock or disable device'  When he knew they were going to be dungeon crawling for at least 5 or so levels!?!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Now we're starting a new campaign. It's linked to our previous campaign in that a couple of Lathander worshipping NPCs from the old campaign are starting an organisation to basically search for their church's lost artifacts and battle the Shades and followers of Shar.So I start talking to my players about character creation. One paladin of Lathander- no problem. One rogue, devout follower of Selune -fits fine, since Selune's worshippers tend to be very anti-Shar, one cleric/rogue of Oghma -also fits, because of the whole searching for lost knowledge angle. Then we get to player 4....'I think I'll play a necromancer. I'll raise lots of undead and get them to fight for me. Will you let me be evil if I promise not to attack the other PCs' (paraphrased a bit, but that was pretty much the gist of it)So you plan on joining an organisation, run basically by the church of Lathander- who really hates undead. Not only that, but you know you'll be adventuring with a paladin. And you see no problem with playing an evil character who's creating undead left and right?!? <bangs head against table>(For the record, he's been told no undead-raising necromancers, and is now considering a different type of wizard)I always try really hard to talk to the players about the type of game I'm planning and  make sure it's one that they'll want to play. For the most part, I have great players, who give me a lot of input into what they'd like to do and where they'd like to take their PC. But I always seem to get one who says he/she likes the sound of the campaign, then wants to make a character that's completely unsuitable.Does anyone else have a group that does this, or are my players just on a mission to drive me insane? Ellie</blockquote>

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