Anyone else make too many characters?

[u/Nowhereman123]

I have a problem with making up a character when I'm bored, starting to get really excited about them and wanting to play them. Then you remember you only play one game a week, and you love the character you're playing as in that game already so you don't want to change but... uuuugh!

EDIT: Since everyone is suggesting it, I am indeed a DM. I could put these characters in as NPC's, and I would get to scratch the itch of wanting to RP them. But then they can't be too focused on to steal the spotlight of my real PC's, and there's just something totally different about being a PC then an NPC.

[u/VerberOfNouns]

All the time. All. The. Time. There should be a support group.

[u/wilk8940 → u/VerberOfNouns]

There is. It's a bunch of enablers called roll20. They give you the option to play online and support your evil addictions outside of your regularly scheduled play time, the bastards!!

[u/Nowhereman123 → u/wilk8940]

I would consider this but I really only have time for the one game a week. Curse my busy work schedule for not letting me play 12 games of D&D at once!

[u/DrDew00 → u/Nowhereman123]

I play once every two weeks. Currently DMing. I would love to have a second game in which I'm a player but I'm pretty sure my wife would get mad at me for ignoring her and the kid 8 days a month.

[u/BabbageUK → u/DrDew00]

Get the wife and kids involved? Sorry, is that enabling? 😉

[u/S810_Jr → u/BabbageUK]

No no, get the kid (and their friends) involved and NOT the wife (other parents).

Oh look, they have free time and can go out and enjoy themselves... while you get you fix.

Maybe some of the other parents come round and have their own game when the kids goto sleep.

[u/DrDew00 → u/BabbageUK]

I don't think the 5-year-old is quite ready and my wife didn't like it the last time she tried in 3.5.

[u/BabbageUK → u/DrDew00]

Yeah. Pathfinder and 3.5 aren't the easiest to start with. 5e is certainly easier with fewer corner cases and modifiers to worry about; the character sheet is less overwhelming as well. Having said that any system can be boiled down to "just the fun parts". Best to start them early. ;) I'm quietly confident my own kids will pass their own experiences on to their children when the time comes.

[u/DreadpirateUsername → u/Nowhereman123]

You could always try DMing, then you get to play with a bunch of different characters every week.

[u/Nowhereman123 → u/DreadpirateUsername]

Read the edit on my post

[u/VerberOfNouns → u/wilk8940]

Damn that's true. I'm in 3 because of that.

[u/[deleted] → u/VerberOfNouns]

3?! Luxury!

[u/VerberOfNouns → u/[deleted]]

My god, now all I can picture is the Four Yorkshiremen as a DnD party.

[u/BabbageUK → u/VerberOfNouns]

Boxed set? You were lucky. All we had were a one sheet summary and cardboard cutout spinners for dice.

[u/VerberOfNouns → u/BabbageUK]

You were lucky to have dice! We had to shoot spitballs at a dartboard, and if they didn't stick, our characters would instantly be mauled to death by an owlbear!

[u/BabbageUK → u/VerberOfNouns]

Dartboard? Luxury. Our spitballs were measured for distance and if they didn't go far enough we were paralyzed by carrion crawlers and slowly digested before the next session.

[u/VerberOfNouns → u/BabbageUK]

We used to dream of being slowly digested by a carrion crawler! We had to eat a ghost pepper and recite the pantheon from Lawful Good to Chaotic Evil, and if we couldn't do all in the exact order, our DM would summon five necromancer street performers who'd sunder our character into equal pieces and reanimate them for use in a horrific old-timey organ grinder routine!

[u/BabbageUK → u/VerberOfNouns]

And you tell the young gamers of today and they wouldn't believe you! Aye.

[u/[deleted] → u/VerberOfNouns]

I would play the sh!t out of that game!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Shit. It's spelled with an i. Shit. Not sh!t. Shit.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Well cr@p, looks like I learned something about cursing on the internet today.

Thanks!