arkangel111
2014-11-26, 03:00 PM
Ok, so I run a game with my family, and I am by far the most experienced so GMing has fallen to me. Originally the group was too small so my wife joined in. Anyways my wife decided she would play but I had to make her character. In order to keep down on bookkeeping I created a decently optimized sorcerer, though its for damage. After a few games she has given me the following complaints about her character.
"all I do is cast a spell and roll the dice and my turn is over"
"My character is boring, but I like the character"
"everyone else spends 10 mins doing their turn, and then they also get to interrupt enemy turns" (AoO's)
When asked what she wants to do she just says "I don't know, I just don't want to be bored"
When told that she is the only reason they survived a hard encounter (colorspray) she still replied along the same lines but added that she likes being the reason they won but wants to do more on her turn.
So I originally optimized her using traits to reduce metamagic and for casting burning ARC and such but she just wastes her turn casting magic missile, so she can't miss. Because she hates wasting her turn rolling the dice and missing the enemy.
I am the GM and have let everyone continually tweak their characters between sessions because they all are new gamers. So changing everything is Ok, but she really wants to keep the feel. So I am trying to keep her a sorcerer but want to adjust her stats and her traits/feats/spells.
Character is level 4 sorcerer, I don't have the stats cause I am on vacation but her Cha is 20 all other stats are decently high because I didn't want them killing themselves with their lack of knowledge about the system. I prefer not to have her use summons because the table sometimes has 9 party members and sometimes has 3. It is lokking like 3 is gonna be a weekly occurance with as many as 4 more added at least once a month and 2 more that could pop in randomly.
The 2 regulars are a Rogue and a Magus. I am debating a DMPC tank for when the party is only 3. Party is just about appropriate WBL but in the middle of a dungeon, so have items of a 1st level party, except random items found in dungeon.
TL;DR: wife is bored with blasty sorcerer, and wants to feel more a part of the combat. Party is sometimes too big for a summon focused sorcerer but that doesn't rule it out entirely. I'd like to keep her sorcerer but it can change if necessary.
Ideas?
"all I do is cast a spell and roll the dice and my turn is over"
"My character is boring, but I like the character"
"everyone else spends 10 mins doing their turn, and then they also get to interrupt enemy turns" (AoO's)
When asked what she wants to do she just says "I don't know, I just don't want to be bored"
When told that she is the only reason they survived a hard encounter (colorspray) she still replied along the same lines but added that she likes being the reason they won but wants to do more on her turn.
So I originally optimized her using traits to reduce metamagic and for casting burning ARC and such but she just wastes her turn casting magic missile, so she can't miss. Because she hates wasting her turn rolling the dice and missing the enemy.
I am the GM and have let everyone continually tweak their characters between sessions because they all are new gamers. So changing everything is Ok, but she really wants to keep the feel. So I am trying to keep her a sorcerer but want to adjust her stats and her traits/feats/spells.
Character is level 4 sorcerer, I don't have the stats cause I am on vacation but her Cha is 20 all other stats are decently high because I didn't want them killing themselves with their lack of knowledge about the system. I prefer not to have her use summons because the table sometimes has 9 party members and sometimes has 3. It is lokking like 3 is gonna be a weekly occurance with as many as 4 more added at least once a month and 2 more that could pop in randomly.
The 2 regulars are a Rogue and a Magus. I am debating a DMPC tank for when the party is only 3. Party is just about appropriate WBL but in the middle of a dungeon, so have items of a 1st level party, except random items found in dungeon.
TL;DR: wife is bored with blasty sorcerer, and wants to feel more a part of the combat. Party is sometimes too big for a summon focused sorcerer but that doesn't rule it out entirely. I'd like to keep her sorcerer but it can change if necessary.
Ideas?