For me, it's introducing powerful NPCs way too oftenly (in my current campaign, our DM introduced a bunch of them, and sometime it's like watching the DM playing with his toy) and make too many combat where you "intended" for the players to run from it (1 or 2 time maybe fine, but from the 3rd time foward, it started to get annoying)
Like... you love the premise, the lore, the story, etc. But... somewhere in between, it just... fell apart. Players couldn't make it to the session, they made... questionable mistake, that turned the campaign upside down, they have a second thought on the class that they were playing, and they don't find that class or that character fun anymore, stuff like that. Have you ever tried to... reset the campaign? Picking players who can show up often, fully discussed your characters with the group, made... "better" decision. Have you ever done it? If yes, pls tell me your experience with it so that i could know wehether i should discuss it with my game group
The DM approved my backstory, saying it's quite interesting: My PC (planning to call him Socrates) is a wizard in this wizard college. One day, he found a whole skeleton in the forest near his dorm, and decided to cast Animate Dead on it, as a fun little experiment. The skeleton came to life, and surprisingly, it can talk (pretty talkative, you might say). He doesn't remember much of the life before his death (only some fragment of it). Socrates and the skeleton become good friends. But, bringing someone who has been dead for a long time is kind of a taboo in this setting, and my PC, being young and naive, didn't know that. When the school council found out about it, they expelled him. From then on, he study magic on his own, and went on a journey to find the origin of his skeleton buddy (the skeleton like that idea too)
Yeah, so that's a draft of it, the details are subject to change. Is there a good Necromancer build for this? A build that dedicated to buffing one skeleton's stats through the roof? If not, any build that related to Animate Dead would be good enough. Thank you in advance