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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6776160" data-attributes="member: 58197">Hmm. You've got mechanical issues here, being aggravated by personal issues. Obviously, it would have been better to use standard array or point buy, but that ship has sailed. However, I think it can be solved without requiring the barbarian player to give up his beloved PC.The first thing you need to do IMO is get the rest of the party up to the barbarian's level. No matter what else is going on, an 8th-level character adventuring with a bunch of 5th-level companions is going to stand out. Imposing level penalties for dying was clearly a mistake in this group. You could just level them up by fiat, or adopt a policy that if you're lower than the highest-level member of the party, you get accelerated XP awards until you catch up.After that, however... the guy's got Sentinel, so I presume he designed his character to be "sticky" and keep big monsters occupied. So why not let him succeed? I suggest you design encounters with a "barbarian component" (a huge, high-damage melee monster that's easily stuck-down with Sentinel) and a "non-barbarian component" (evasive ranged monsters and spellcasters that the barbarian can't get to, but the other PCs can). If the evasive monsters are the actual bosses of the encounter (e.g., mind flayers), then the other players won't feel like a sideshow, and the barbarian gets to revel in soaking absurd amounts of punishment and taking down enormous foes.Of course, this depends on what the other PCs are. If the other PCs are also melee specialists, that's another problem.</blockquote>

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