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How to Handle a Powergamer / Munchkin
What are some strategies that I can employ to handle a power gamer that constantly outshines the rest of the party? This is a friend of us all and we don't want to boot him, but combat simply isn't ...
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What is the statistically superior character creation method, twelve 3d6 or six 4d6?
The D&D 3.5 Player's Handbook gives (among others) two preferred methods to roll ability scores for a new character: a) roll 3d6 twelve times and keep the preferred six results, or b) roll 4d6 and ...
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How do you powergame 1st Edition AD&D?
1st Edition Dungeons and Dragons gives its players a few strategic options during character creation, many of which are restricted by randomly generated attributes. With this in mind, what are some ...
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How do I make my overpowered character more fun to play
My friend is running a modified cyberpunk campaign, where we are fighting zombies during WWII in germany. Fun stuff.
However, I made my charachter a Martial arts, boxer, giving them a 10 in reflex, ...
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What is the most effective healing class in D&D 4e?
There are many Leader role classes in D&D4.0 these days.
Cleric
Warlord
Bard
Shaman
etc
Which one makes the most effective healer by the numbers?
Numbers to be evaluated
Hit points healed ...
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How should I handle nerfing a player for the purposes of game balance?
Background
I run a Live Action Role-Playing game on a monthly basis (from March through November) for anywhere from 10-30 PCs (with 3 other Plot members and anywhere from 0-10 NPCs). The majority of ...
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Spitting Cobra Stance
The Ranger has an encounter power called Spitting Cobra Stance that seems grossly over-powered - in one group I play in, the Ranger will enter Spitting Cobra Stance at the beginning of combat, and the ...
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Increasing cleric hitpoints
I'm running a Dwarf Cleric in a vanilla FR D&D 4e game. My character is intended to be somewhat of a defender as well as a leader. The problem I'm having is that I haven not found any ...
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Exalted Land Speed Record Build
A while back, my group decided to see if we could come up with a way to get an Exalted Character, with unlimited XP and Personal Artifacts (those that can be worn for example), to run across creation ...
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Which level 30 character built with only PHB1 can defeat Orcus solo?
After today's D&D session I had an argument with one of our players. He insisted that a single level 30 wizard or ranger can defeat Orcus solo. Another player and I strongly disagreed with that ...
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Experienced player behaving badly, challenging my motivation
This is a long question. I´d be much obliged, if you would read it completely
My group and I just migrated from a DM whose VERY incongruent storytelling and deliberate punishment of ...
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How can I make sure my character is awesome enough?
This question pulls quite a lot from Brian Ballsun-Stanton's paper on constrained optimisation (i.e. making your character awesome), so that might be a good thing to read.
I know that in D&D ...
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Fighter weapon choice?
With the normal fighter builds found in the PHB, is there any weapon choice (hammers, light blade, heavy blade, axes, etc) that does statistically better damage based on weapon damage, power ...
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Optimizing a rogue as an assassin
I'm in the process of building a character who works as a hired assassin of the ranged flavor.
My idea of the perfect assassin is one that can be undetected and unload a massive amount of damage ...
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How can I make the most of a Barbarian's Rage?
I was subbing for a Barbarian player last night, and I realized just how few rages they get. It seems they basically get one per daily power. I also noticed that several of his powers had better ...
