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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frostmarrow" data-source="post: 183056" data-attributes="member: 1122">Hi HongFrom what I have seen most modules are balanced towards min/maxed characters. I've DMed or played RttToEE, Demon God's Fane, Rappan Athukk, the d20 series and the Freeport-series. If you don't min/max and fail to use sound tactics you are as good as dead in any of those adventures.Now, sometimes you like to role-play more and min/max less and I applaud that. However, this requires the DM to tone down a lot of encounters - creating extra work for him. I know it might sound strange but that's how I have experienced things.Our group runs two campaigns. One powergame and one role-playing game.Last saturday my swashbuckler in Freeport got eaten by a tree! There was nothing I could do because my character was geared towards role-playing and social skills. Had I been a good boy and maxed out spot and escape artist as a rogue should I would have been just fine.The point of this story is that if you want to survive D&D-modules you need to min/max and use tactics. If you don't care for min/maxing the DM should remove the min/maxing from the monsters.Example: In another adventure we met a couple of trolls. Fiendish trolls. Luckily this was our min/max-party so we managed to dispose of them. However, had we had our role-playing party we'd be dead meat unless the DM had removed the Fiendish-template from the trolls. You know what fire resistance does to trolls, don't you?</blockquote>

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