Post by ShonenSenshiDave on Dec 3, 2003 14:30:49 GMT -5
Ok, I have a bit of a dilemma. The PC I'm currently playing in one of my tabletops has finally grated on my last nerve. He's not a bad character, don't get me wrong, but it seems that he is an experiment which hasn't worked...
1. He's a 3E psi reworked to fit into our 1/2E game. MjolnirH was pretty cool about trying this out. He, as DM, has always been really careful about making sure my character isn't too overpowered and that he fits in the game, but I'm finding that he doesn't really seem to have a place in the party. He's just kind of there. The rest of the party is as follows:
half-elf druid
elven ftr/wiz
elven rgr/archer
dwarven ftr (x2)
human cleric (x2)
gnome thf
The dwarves are best buds, and the elves and half elves get along pretty well. The one human cleric is kinda aloof and too new to get a reading on (the Player has been around for a while even though the Char is new), and the other is well, kinda nose in the air and secretive, not exactly friendly (the char, not the player).
He's a human psi, and truthfully, he doesn't have any friends in the party. What's worse, now that the fighters have leveled up since we started playing and are much more combat effective, my guy has lost his role as a front-line character. And since our magic users have leveled up, he's not really needed for that much any more.
2. He's getting kinda dull. I feel like I've played him as far as he can go, and now he's pretty much "the guy who throws around fireballs". That's it. That's his whole identity... a Walking Zippo. It was kinda fun for a while, but now it's tedious. And since the party is beginning to get to higher levels, and the challenges are increasing accordingly, he's not very useful as a combat character... not like he used to be. So not only does he not fit in, in terms of race and class, but now all of his roles seem to have comfortably shifted to other party members.
3. Although MH may disagree, I feel as though he's far surpassed the rest of the party to the point that it's hampering the other characters. He's just too darn powerful, but cutting him back really doesn't seem to be a solution since he'll just level up again at some point, and we'll be back here again with the same problem.
Honestly, the fondest memory I have of this character is when we were in a local town and my PC won a Strongman competition. Otherwise, that's it. Maybe I'm just evolving in terms of what I want in a character... <sigh>
I'm at my wits end over here at this point. Like I said, good experiment, but I feel as though now that the party has matured, and the players have matured, he really doesn't serve much of a purpose anymore. I really want to approach my DM about this and ask to just retire the character before it gets any worse... we're gaming this weekend, and it's so bad I'm half tempted to skip out.
My thinking is that I need a new character who will (a) fit better into the party racially and in terms of class, (b) not get so powerful that he unbalances things, which he has IMO, and (c) who will actually have a role to play now that everyone seems to be on the same scale in terms of being able to play.
He was kinda the leader, but that was only b/c the two most experienced ppl in the party were myself and the DM. Now that everyone has figured out the game mechanics and gained experience as both characters and players, it's time to create a character who will mesh with that, know what I mean?
Advice, please...
??
1. He's a 3E psi reworked to fit into our 1/2E game. MjolnirH was pretty cool about trying this out. He, as DM, has always been really careful about making sure my character isn't too overpowered and that he fits in the game, but I'm finding that he doesn't really seem to have a place in the party. He's just kind of there. The rest of the party is as follows:
half-elf druid
elven ftr/wiz
elven rgr/archer
dwarven ftr (x2)
human cleric (x2)
gnome thf
The dwarves are best buds, and the elves and half elves get along pretty well. The one human cleric is kinda aloof and too new to get a reading on (the Player has been around for a while even though the Char is new), and the other is well, kinda nose in the air and secretive, not exactly friendly (the char, not the player).
He's a human psi, and truthfully, he doesn't have any friends in the party. What's worse, now that the fighters have leveled up since we started playing and are much more combat effective, my guy has lost his role as a front-line character. And since our magic users have leveled up, he's not really needed for that much any more.
2. He's getting kinda dull. I feel like I've played him as far as he can go, and now he's pretty much "the guy who throws around fireballs". That's it. That's his whole identity... a Walking Zippo. It was kinda fun for a while, but now it's tedious. And since the party is beginning to get to higher levels, and the challenges are increasing accordingly, he's not very useful as a combat character... not like he used to be. So not only does he not fit in, in terms of race and class, but now all of his roles seem to have comfortably shifted to other party members.
3. Although MH may disagree, I feel as though he's far surpassed the rest of the party to the point that it's hampering the other characters. He's just too darn powerful, but cutting him back really doesn't seem to be a solution since he'll just level up again at some point, and we'll be back here again with the same problem.
Honestly, the fondest memory I have of this character is when we were in a local town and my PC won a Strongman competition. Otherwise, that's it. Maybe I'm just evolving in terms of what I want in a character... <sigh>
I'm at my wits end over here at this point. Like I said, good experiment, but I feel as though now that the party has matured, and the players have matured, he really doesn't serve much of a purpose anymore. I really want to approach my DM about this and ask to just retire the character before it gets any worse... we're gaming this weekend, and it's so bad I'm half tempted to skip out.
My thinking is that I need a new character who will (a) fit better into the party racially and in terms of class, (b) not get so powerful that he unbalances things, which he has IMO, and (c) who will actually have a role to play now that everyone seems to be on the same scale in terms of being able to play.
He was kinda the leader, but that was only b/c the two most experienced ppl in the party were myself and the DM. Now that everyone has figured out the game mechanics and gained experience as both characters and players, it's time to create a character who will mesh with that, know what I mean?
Advice, please...
??
