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<blockquote data-quote="Panda-s1" data-source="post: 7762376" data-attributes="member: 59554"><p>Okay, quick aside: I'm always baffled at this "DM must compete with the Players" mentality some people have. Like obviously the DM is supposed to challenge the players, but bear with me here. I find the idea that a player can be "overpowered" just a little silly given the nature of D&D. This isn't like Magic where one player can outright win almost every game because they have the one really good deck in their game store; like a lot of D&D beginner text says there is no "winner" in this game, it's not meant to be competitive. Now clearly someone <em>can </em>make an overpowered character, but I'd be more worried if it made one player outshine everyone else than "Oh no, he was able to get past an encounter (that was explicitly designed to be won) faster than usual. That extremely situational spell he used in a clever manner should be banned from my game". Really?</p><p></p><p>Also inb4 some smartass tries to lecture me on ye olden days of (A)D&D when DM was the referee and the game said they were the antagonist or w/e 1) roleplaying games (D&D included) have evolved greatly since then and 2) that doesn't even counter what I said as the early D&D game was still explicitly designed so that a group of adventurers who played carefully could actually get to the end of a dungeon and defeat the boss.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panda-s1, post: 7762376, member: 59554"] Okay, quick aside: I'm always baffled at this "DM must compete with the Players" mentality some people have. Like obviously the DM is supposed to challenge the players, but bear with me here. I find the idea that a player can be "overpowered" just a little silly given the nature of D&D. This isn't like Magic where one player can outright win almost every game because they have the one really good deck in their game store; like a lot of D&D beginner text says there is no "winner" in this game, it's not meant to be competitive. Now clearly someone [I]can [/I]make an overpowered character, but I'd be more worried if it made one player outshine everyone else than "Oh no, he was able to get past an encounter (that was explicitly designed to be won) faster than usual. That extremely situational spell he used in a clever manner should be banned from my game". Really? Also inb4 some smartass tries to lecture me on ye olden days of (A)D&D when DM was the referee and the game said they were the antagonist or w/e 1) roleplaying games (D&D included) have evolved greatly since then and 2) that doesn't even counter what I said as the early D&D game was still explicitly designed so that a group of adventurers who played carefully could actually get to the end of a dungeon and defeat the boss. [/QUOTE]
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