One of my friends is planning a Harry Potter One-Shot. He is using D&D to make it, but it changing a bunch of things.
For example, all Druids are animagi (wildshape) and he has to approve the animal. I tried becoming a Druid. I said I wanted to become a CR 2 Rhino, because we were making lvl 6 characters. He said no. I think he was expecting dogs, maybe a wolf for the wildshape/animagus, but that debuffs druids a lot.
I decided to change to a Bard (I like Bards... look at my name). I chose the College of Whispers since it was going to become an infiltration mission, and used the level 6 class feature: “Mantle of Whispers.” It lets the character transform into a humanoid it sees die and gain information on the persona (it lasts an hour). The DM said I couldn’t use it. “It doesn’t fit the setting” he said, “You can’t carry around 40 gallons of polyjuice potion all the time.” He told me to find an alternative. “His campaign, his rules.”
What should I do? I don’t know if I should keep pressing him, find a new feature to replace it with, or something else. Can anyone help me? Thanks.
Edit: This is basically, “How do you deal with a control freak DM?”
Ask him to put together a few characters for you to pick from, complete with any home brew modifications, and then pick the one that you like the most. If he wants to be that much of a control freak, don’t put in hours of work, make him put the work in instead. He’ll come up with at least one acceptable character for you.
I agree with Tim: if a DM wants to run an extremely specific setting, with strict restrictions, they should provide at least example characters or a list of modifications to classes.
Best is for him to create the characters and let the players choose.
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Why not carry polyjuice potion around everywhere? Harry Ron and Hermione do all through the 7th book, Moody has his own stock too. And maybe it's not a true transformation and you're just talented at self-transfiguration?
And why not a rhino anamagus?
I'd point out to your DM that the things you're wanting to do aren't restricted by the source material.
And if he's that much of a stickler, then everyone had better give up if they want to actually play wizards too since HP wizards don't need to prepare spells, and if they're going to be that much of a stickler then nothing really works
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One of my friends is planning a Harry Potter One-Shot. He is using D&D to make it, but it changing a bunch of things.
For example, all Druids are animagi (wildshape) and he has to approve the animal. I tried becoming a Druid. I said I wanted to become a CR 2 Rhino, because we were making lvl 6 characters. He said no. I think he was expecting dogs, maybe a wolf for the wildshape/animagus, but that debuffs druids a lot.
I decided to change to a Bard (I like Bards... look at my name). I chose the College of Whispers since it was going to become an infiltration mission, and used the level 6 class feature: “Mantle of Whispers.” It lets the character transform into a humanoid it sees die and gain information on the persona (it lasts an hour). The DM said I couldn’t use it. “It doesn’t fit the setting” he said, “You can’t carry around 40 gallons of polyjuice potion all the time.” He told me to find an alternative. “His campaign, his rules.”
What should I do? I don’t know if I should keep pressing him, find a new feature to replace it with, or something else. Can anyone help me? Thanks.
Edit: This is basically, “How do you deal with a control freak DM?”
it's been a long time...
Ask him to put together a few characters for you to pick from, complete with any home brew modifications, and then pick the one that you like the most. If he wants to be that much of a control freak, don’t put in hours of work, make him put the work in instead. He’ll come up with at least one acceptable character for you.
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I agree with Tim: if a DM wants to run an extremely specific setting, with strict restrictions, they should provide at least example characters or a list of modifications to classes.
Best is for him to create the characters and let the players choose.
Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games
I think I am just going to change the subclass to College of Swords. Let’s see how he likes an extra Attack. :)
it's been a long time...
Why not carry polyjuice potion around everywhere? Harry Ron and Hermione do all through the 7th book, Moody has his own stock too. And maybe it's not a true transformation and you're just talented at self-transfiguration?
And why not a rhino anamagus?
I'd point out to your DM that the things you're wanting to do aren't restricted by the source material.
And if he's that much of a stickler, then everyone had better give up if they want to actually play wizards too since HP wizards don't need to prepare spells, and if they're going to be that much of a stickler then nothing really works