. Me and my best friend are playing dnd for three years. Our old group split up and I bought Tomb of Anhilation so that we could start our own campaign. Every other session he changes his character Because he finds a series, a marvel movie, hears a song, an anime episode that give him new inspiration for characters. His record is playing the same character for two sessions... I am tired for obvious reasons and I have reached out to him for that issue asking if I can do anything to help or if it's something I do that bothers him and he just said I can't decide what to play because I have so many ideas. I don't know how it may sound but I just want to DM more than session 0 and 1 all over again... Every time he makes a character I try everything to make it seem appealing but nope nothing... Any ideas
The session is tomorrow so it would really help me If someone gave me an idea
Thanks everyone for the suggestions I think I know what I am going to do!!!
It is often difficult if not impossible to get a player who likes to change characters to stop doing it. I'm not sure there is any one thing YOU can do.
Have you thought about changing roles and letting your friend DM? He can make up tons of different character ideas as NPCs, and you can play the PC and just stick to one.
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By default, a party of adventurers is 3 to 5 people, and the published ones will be scaled around that. Just one player really couldn't get anywhere in the Tomb of Annihilation. So the question is, do you not have at least two other players? What are they playing? How do they feel about this? I agree with BioWizard (I often find that I do) you should offer your friend the chance to DM, or admit that something is fundamentally wrong and perhaps put away the Tomb until your friend is willing to stick with a character.
Myself, if I was DM, I'd tell my friend I was sorry, but either they stuck with a character, or they would have to find another game. If they were a good friend, they would understand and either do what I asked or leave the game without rancor.
The alternative to the above suggestions is to let your friend rebuild their character but just continue the story. In game, you could explain it as the character being a young "chameleon" who's final form is still trying to settle.They level up as normal but their race/class might be fluid from session to session. They get no benefits from this other than the ability to rebuild their character and you get to continue the storyline.
Also, as mentioned, none of these modules work very well with one player. You didn't mention others and the comment that you start the game over every time leads me to think that there might only be the one player (since most other folks would not put up with playing the same content over and over). If you are trying to run with one player - I would agree with the suggestion of trying to recruit a couple more people. This might also help your friend decide on one character since they start building relationships with other characters.
Explain to them that their constant character swapping means that you're not having fun, and that if they can't settle on a character and launch into a long-term campaign then that's not the experience that you're looking for. That's really all you can do. There's no right or wrong way to play DnD, there's only a right and wrong way for you.
Continue with the current campaign, and if they say that they want to change character again, just tell them that you'd rather not play than do that again. It's wasting the work and time you put in as a DM.
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. Me and my best friend are playing dnd for three years. Our old group split up and I bought Tomb of Anhilation so that we could start our own campaign. Every other session he changes his character Because he finds a series, a marvel movie, hears a song, an anime episode that give him new inspiration for characters. His record is playing the same character for two sessions... I am tired for obvious reasons and I have reached out to him for that issue asking if I can do anything to help or if it's something I do that bothers him and he just said I can't decide what to play because I have so many ideas. I don't know how it may sound but I just want to DM more than session 0 and 1 all over again... Every time he makes a character I try everything to make it seem appealing but nope nothing... Any ideas
The session is tomorrow so it would really help me If someone gave me an idea
Thanks everyone for the suggestions I think I know what I am going to do!!!
It is often difficult if not impossible to get a player who likes to change characters to stop doing it. I'm not sure there is any one thing YOU can do.
Have you thought about changing roles and letting your friend DM? He can make up tons of different character ideas as NPCs, and you can play the PC and just stick to one.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
By default, a party of adventurers is 3 to 5 people, and the published ones will be scaled around that. Just one player really couldn't get anywhere in the Tomb of Annihilation. So the question is, do you not have at least two other players? What are they playing? How do they feel about this? I agree with BioWizard (I often find that I do) you should offer your friend the chance to DM, or admit that something is fundamentally wrong and perhaps put away the Tomb until your friend is willing to stick with a character.
Myself, if I was DM, I'd tell my friend I was sorry, but either they stuck with a character, or they would have to find another game. If they were a good friend, they would understand and either do what I asked or leave the game without rancor.
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The alternative to the above suggestions is to let your friend rebuild their character but just continue the story. In game, you could explain it as the character being a young "chameleon" who's final form is still trying to settle.They level up as normal but their race/class might be fluid from session to session. They get no benefits from this other than the ability to rebuild their character and you get to continue the storyline.
Also, as mentioned, none of these modules work very well with one player. You didn't mention others and the comment that you start the game over every time leads me to think that there might only be the one player (since most other folks would not put up with playing the same content over and over). If you are trying to run with one player - I would agree with the suggestion of trying to recruit a couple more people. This might also help your friend decide on one character since they start building relationships with other characters.
Explain to them that their constant character swapping means that you're not having fun, and that if they can't settle on a character and launch into a long-term campaign then that's not the experience that you're looking for. That's really all you can do. There's no right or wrong way to play DnD, there's only a right and wrong way for you.
Continue with the current campaign, and if they say that they want to change character again, just tell them that you'd rather not play than do that again. It's wasting the work and time you put in as a DM.