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<blockquote data-quote="cjosephs1s" data-source="post: 5704233" data-attributes="member: 6683450"><p>Broken builds? I'm probably going to be about the only one with this point of view but a build is never broken. Even the example of the three wish thing isn't broken. Any good DM will nerf wishes and look exactly at what the player is asking and usually thwart even the craftiest of players so they don't get what they exactly intended. Yeah you get another Candle but its on the 9th layer of Hell. go fetch! lol </p><p> </p><p>Players get creative with characters to build them more powerful than perhaps originally thought. They min/max sometimes. They munchkin here and there and stack bonuses where they can. The game is designed that way. Keep in mind when players do buff something outragouesly they leave weaknesses. For example in the campaign I play (its gestalt) I have a Fire Giant fighter 14/14. Granted he can kill most living critters with a couple crits but he can't make a reflex save to save his life. The undead we just faced killed him in one round of combat from Intelligence drain. Lot of good being able to crit for over 130HP did me. Now many of you would say doing that much damage is broken yet after one round of combat I was killed by a CR appropriate critter so I say its not broken. Hes just good at what he does. </p><p> </p><p>Your the DM, outsmart your players. Look at what their bonuses are going to be at higher levels. Will they still be outrageously high for their level? Throw more challenging monsters at them to even the playing field. Add templates to your critters. In a previous campaign my DM found a nasty template that did 1/2 physcial damage back to my Warblade. Ouch! If a character is broken its only because you let him be. No character is sooo insanely powerful that nothing can kill them or make them quake in their boots just a little. Trust me, we've tried to make them using Gestalt campaings with feats from any d20 source and our DM still kills us (I had a Astral Deva/monk level 11 with an AC over 50 and saves over+20 and he still died from a CR appropriate monster) </p><p> </p><p>Broken? HAAHAHA!!!!!!!! I laugh at broken and then find a way to kill it and so does my DM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cjosephs1s, post: 5704233, member: 6683450"] Broken builds? I'm probably going to be about the only one with this point of view but a build is never broken. Even the example of the three wish thing isn't broken. Any good DM will nerf wishes and look exactly at what the player is asking and usually thwart even the craftiest of players so they don't get what they exactly intended. Yeah you get another Candle but its on the 9th layer of Hell. go fetch! lol Players get creative with characters to build them more powerful than perhaps originally thought. They min/max sometimes. They munchkin here and there and stack bonuses where they can. The game is designed that way. Keep in mind when players do buff something outragouesly they leave weaknesses. For example in the campaign I play (its gestalt) I have a Fire Giant fighter 14/14. Granted he can kill most living critters with a couple crits but he can't make a reflex save to save his life. The undead we just faced killed him in one round of combat from Intelligence drain. Lot of good being able to crit for over 130HP did me. Now many of you would say doing that much damage is broken yet after one round of combat I was killed by a CR appropriate critter so I say its not broken. Hes just good at what he does. Your the DM, outsmart your players. Look at what their bonuses are going to be at higher levels. Will they still be outrageously high for their level? Throw more challenging monsters at them to even the playing field. Add templates to your critters. In a previous campaign my DM found a nasty template that did 1/2 physcial damage back to my Warblade. Ouch! If a character is broken its only because you let him be. No character is sooo insanely powerful that nothing can kill them or make them quake in their boots just a little. Trust me, we've tried to make them using Gestalt campaings with feats from any d20 source and our DM still kills us (I had a Astral Deva/monk level 11 with an AC over 50 and saves over+20 and he still died from a CR appropriate monster) Broken? HAAHAHA!!!!!!!! I laugh at broken and then find a way to kill it and so does my DM. [/QUOTE]
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