There are many communities still on reddit for which there are no alternatives on lemmy as of yet and if you want it to surpass reddit you need to stop with the toxic attitude and the false sense of superiority especially since a lot of the content on this platform is just reposts from 4chan, x, reddit. If curious folk come here and all they see is toxic threads and reposts why would they stay here? This is mostly in response to the comments I’ve seen on here not the thread itself.

If you help him with something half way thru act 2 he will offer to join you.

No, the character that initiated the interaction is always the one to do the skill checks. Only way to swap characters after a fail is to reload a save pre skill check.