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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5987388" data-attributes="member: 19675">I blew up once...during PC creation.It was a 2Ed game using the Player's Option rule books, so envying could design their own custom PCs.  Another player and myself both chose to play Clerics.My concept was a shamanistic Northman from a warrior culture (Martial weapons, medium armor, fighter THAC0) who Inspired Berserker Rages instead of Turned Undead, and had skill with arcane & divine protective & buff spells.  Only one of his 3 damage-dealing spells was above 3rd level- Blade Barrier- and only because of the way the books divvied up the spells's Spheres & Schools.In fact, while he had access to a lot of different Spheres & the Abjuration school of wizardry, most of his access was "Minor"- limited to spells of 3rd level or lower.  Most of his spells targeted allies.When the other cleric player looked at my PC, he started whining about my build.  His PC was a lightly armored martial artist with a lot of magical power, but fewer Spheres because all of his access was Major.  He, too, had chosen to learn a school of Wizardry, but one of the attack schools.But all he could see is that my cleric had more Spheres than his, while being an armored, sword-swinging "barbarian" to his lightly-armored martial-artist with more powerful spell. He kept going on and on about it.When he started calling the PC "Superman", I stood up, tore it up, and threw the pieces in his face, then set about designing a new PC.(Later that year, I ran that same PC in a different campaign with some of the same players, and he got one-shotted by a foe who critted him.  When this happened, one of those players said, "Soooooo...that was 'Superman', huh?")I still gqme with the dude who set me off- it was neither of ours' finest moment.</blockquote>

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