Hjorimir
Adventurer
As a DM, I find extreme character optimization efforts to be funny. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a player trying to make an effective character and I do it also when I’m the player, but not at the sacrifice of what I consider to be an interesting character to role-play. As a DM, it always makes me chuckle.
Players will often claw and scratch their way to being as powerful as they possibly can in some desperate hope to tilt the game to their advantage. I don’t know how most of you other DMs do it, but I write encounters specifically to challenge the PCs. Meaning, the more powerful the PCs are, the more powerful of an encounter I present.
Oh wow, you’ve made quite a monster for a character there! Excuse me while I push an extra couple of ogres into this encounter. Power is relative. Viola!
How far do your players go for power? Do you adjust accordingly, or do you let them run roughshod over the monsters?
There’s no right or wrong answer here.
Players will often claw and scratch their way to being as powerful as they possibly can in some desperate hope to tilt the game to their advantage. I don’t know how most of you other DMs do it, but I write encounters specifically to challenge the PCs. Meaning, the more powerful the PCs are, the more powerful of an encounter I present.
Oh wow, you’ve made quite a monster for a character there! Excuse me while I push an extra couple of ogres into this encounter. Power is relative. Viola!
How far do your players go for power? Do you adjust accordingly, or do you let them run roughshod over the monsters?
There’s no right or wrong answer here.