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<blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 7205561" data-attributes="member: 6803664">I don't mind powergamers.&nbsp; After all, I'm the DM.&nbsp; You can't win an arms race against me.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Nor do I mind mixed groups of PG &amp; non-PG.&nbsp; 1) I can just dial up the difficulty of encounters piecemeal.&nbsp; Our PGing, cheating paladin has discovered this....&nbsp; Many encounters are designed to be 2/3 difficult for most of the party &amp; 1/3 extra hard for him.&nbsp; Funny how that works out.&nbsp; It's like the gods have noticed he's the statical anomaly. (seriously, the player almost never, whatever his lv or stats, reports a # that doesn't work out to 17+mods.&nbsp; So what he fights has been &quot;adjusted&quot; accordingly.&nbsp; I can do that you know, seeing as I'm the DM.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; He has fun, the rest of the group has fun {and is in on the adjustment plan}, &amp; we don't have to have a discussion of cheating.)2) you'll run into a variety of encounters in my games.&nbsp; You can't PG all of them (unless your my cheater I mentioned above).Nor can you hog all of the spotlight - because I'm the one who decides where to shine it &amp; for how long.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ccs, post: 7205561, member: 6803664"] I don't mind powergamers. After all, I'm the DM. You can't win an arms race against me.:) Nor do I mind mixed groups of PG & non-PG. 1) I can just dial up the difficulty of encounters piecemeal. Our PGing, cheating paladin has discovered this.... Many encounters are designed to be 2/3 difficult for most of the party & 1/3 extra hard for him. Funny how that works out. It's like the gods have noticed he's the statical anomaly. (seriously, the player almost never, whatever his lv or stats, reports a # that doesn't work out to 17+mods. So what he fights has been "adjusted" accordingly. I can do that you know, seeing as I'm the DM.:) He has fun, the rest of the group has fun {and is in on the adjustment plan}, & we don't have to have a discussion of cheating.) 2) you'll run into a variety of encounters in my games. You can't PG all of them (unless your my cheater I mentioned above). Nor can you hog all of the spotlight - because I'm the one who decides where to shine it & for how long. [/QUOTE]

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