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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 5096422" data-attributes="member: 6562">There are several schools of thought regarding Expertise. Some consider it a tax, others consider it unnecessary. Nobody thinks it's good for the game. Well, it sounds to me like you're finding the game more fun when everyone is similarly effective. IMHO 4e did a pretty good job at keeping very different characters at comparable competency, using "siloing" and whatnot. Still, there's some room for variance, and it sounds like your Striker guy was originally too far "up" the competency curve to enjoy participating in combats geared for the rest of you. When he dialed his PC back a bit, he enjoyed the game more.The important thing seems to be that all PCs are clustered together on the competency scale: having one stand out for being too good, or for being too sucky, seems to detract equally.(This is where I plug again: having Expertise in the game only widens the possible gap between best and worst, so it's a bad set of feats which are bad for America. Good night and god bless, but hopefully not Vecna.)Cheers, -- N</blockquote>