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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7155753" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>I agree with some of the great advice here - and am happy to see more posts like it than in the last thread on this topic from a few weeks ago.</p><p></p><p>PCs are heroes. In this game, we build them by giving them heroic abilities. This player invested his resources in giving his PC a nearly superhuman ability to be observant.</p><p></p><p>How do you handle it? Celebrate the bleep out of it and make it heroic. </p><p></p><p>Don't counteract it habitually. Let him use his heroic levels of observation to spot things that everyone misses. When he does, describe it in a cool way - how he spotted, heard, smelled or supernaturally sensed something that everyone else missed.</p><p></p><p>Does this mean you won't catch the PCs off guard often? Yes. Does that limit your options as a DM for the things the PCs will face? Yes. Is that a problem? No. There are still a thousand and one ways to properly challenge PCs when they know the secrets. </p><p></p><p>HOWEVER, one fun thing to do is drop in kryptonite for your Superman - but only on rare occasion. Put in those rare villains that can beat even THAT PCs amazing powers of observation, but make sure they stand out. If Superman faces kryptonite in every comic, it gets boring. It just has to be rare enough to catch them off guard and stand out as a major fun event. If your Sherlock Holmes never misses a clue and a high level rogue actually manages to slip by him.... epic moment. If every encounter with rogues features villains under the effects of potions of stealth that give +10 stealth... Sherlock becomes Watson.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 7155753, member: 2629"] I agree with some of the great advice here - and am happy to see more posts like it than in the last thread on this topic from a few weeks ago. PCs are heroes. In this game, we build them by giving them heroic abilities. This player invested his resources in giving his PC a nearly superhuman ability to be observant. How do you handle it? Celebrate the bleep out of it and make it heroic. Don't counteract it habitually. Let him use his heroic levels of observation to spot things that everyone misses. When he does, describe it in a cool way - how he spotted, heard, smelled or supernaturally sensed something that everyone else missed. Does this mean you won't catch the PCs off guard often? Yes. Does that limit your options as a DM for the things the PCs will face? Yes. Is that a problem? No. There are still a thousand and one ways to properly challenge PCs when they know the secrets. HOWEVER, one fun thing to do is drop in kryptonite for your Superman - but only on rare occasion. Put in those rare villains that can beat even THAT PCs amazing powers of observation, but make sure they stand out. If Superman faces kryptonite in every comic, it gets boring. It just has to be rare enough to catch them off guard and stand out as a major fun event. If your Sherlock Holmes never misses a clue and a high level rogue actually manages to slip by him.... epic moment. If every encounter with rogues features villains under the effects of potions of stealth that give +10 stealth... Sherlock becomes Watson. [/QUOTE]
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