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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9312004" data-attributes="member: 508">I once created a &quot;bad&quot; PC on purpose - if we agree that &quot;bad&quot; in this instance meant &quot;purposefully underpowered.&quot;&nbsp; We were trying to get my nephew to try out D&amp;D, so my son offered to run a D&amp;D campaign based on the Skylanders console games, of which my (10 year old at the time) nephew was a big fan.&nbsp; It was just the three of us playing, so my son and I jointly decided this was going to be a campaign which starred my nephew's PC and mine would just be a sidekick.&nbsp; So while he created and ran a kickass baabarian/cleric sheepman named Baabby, I rolled up a cowardly ranger/rogue humanoid crow named Sam Crow whose battle cry was &quot;Help me, Baabby!&quot; when I ran into trouble I couldn't handle (which was often).&nbsp; I purposefully chose non-flashy spells once I could cast spells, and when I got an animal companion I chose a snail that just sat on my shoulder and did nothing to contribute to our fights.But the ploy worked: my nephew had a blast and joined our D&amp;D 3.5 game shortly thereafter (we'd been offering for years but he had kept turning us down), after having seen how much fun TTRPGs could be.&nbsp; And he's been gaming with us for seven years now, through several different campaigns.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 9312004, member: 508"] I once created a "bad" PC on purpose - if we agree that "bad" in this instance meant "purposefully underpowered." We were trying to get my nephew to try out D&D, so my son offered to run a D&D campaign based on the Skylanders console games, of which my (10 year old at the time) nephew was a big fan. It was just the three of us playing, so my son and I jointly decided this was going to be a campaign which starred my nephew's PC and mine would just be a sidekick. So while he created and ran a kickass baabarian/cleric sheepman named Baabby, I rolled up a cowardly ranger/rogue humanoid crow named Sam Crow whose battle cry was "Help me, Baabby!" when I ran into trouble I couldn't handle (which was often). I purposefully chose non-flashy spells once I could cast spells, and when I got an animal companion I chose a snail that just sat on my shoulder and did nothing to contribute to our fights. But the ploy worked: my nephew had a blast and joined our D&D 3.5 game shortly thereafter (we'd been offering for years but he had kept turning us down), after having seen how much fun TTRPGs could be. And he's been gaming with us for seven years now, through several different campaigns. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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