yeah, i get that for some people scouring a bunch of splatbooks for cool stuff and building out a complete powerhouse is half the fun.
But when Korgoth the Destroyer is throwing 5d8s at level 2 and can 1 round things well above their CR, Dave the Elf with his slightly better than normal stats kinda has nothing to do while they turn everything into marinara sauce
fair, though even if they fit in, having one character that's significantly better at combat to the point that the rest of the party might as well not be there is... kinda boring to play with in a standard DnD style game with it's focus on fighting
in games with more of a focus on rp, it's more tolerable
yeah, when i'm dming my own games i focus way more on the rp
the extreme of it is when i dm for my girlfriend, we usually go 2 or 3 sessions without a single combat encounter lol, helped by our rampant system hopping
yeah, i get that for some people scouring a bunch of splatbooks for cool stuff and building out a complete powerhouse is half the fun.
But when Korgoth the Destroyer is throwing 5d8s at level 2 and can 1 round things well above their CR, Dave the Elf with his slightly better than normal stats kinda has nothing to do while they turn everything into marinara sauce
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fair, though even if they fit in, having one character that's significantly better at combat to the point that the rest of the party might as well not be there is... kinda boring to play with in a standard DnD style game with it's focus on fighting
in games with more of a focus on rp, it's more tolerable
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yeah, when i'm dming my own games i focus way more on the rp
the extreme of it is when i dm for my girlfriend, we usually go 2 or 3 sessions without a single combat encounter lol, helped by our rampant system hopping
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i would simply not build dave the elf so poorly :shrug-outta-hecks:
Yes the problem is clearly the rest of the party and not the one person who sucks the fun out of the game
there is room in the system to make a functional character without the half this half that template n onsense
you just have to not exclusively take bad options
"anyone who doesn't do 5d8 at level 2 is clearly exclusively taking bad options"
can you actually do 5d8 at level 2 even that seems like an exaggeration
notice i never specified a system for the fictional scenario you insist on taking apart