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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 2036022" data-attributes="member: 10177">I'm sorry, but the one truth about any game is the level of munchkinism/powergaming/rules breakage is always in control of the DM. Doing the powergaming/munchkining/etc... is fine by me too. Just don't blame a game system for a DM's lack of ability to control the power level of his or her game. I have DMed and played every system I have previously mentioned and the power level was totally in my control, and I kept having plenty of people sitting at my table to game. I even kept RIFTS in control, and Synnibar. Did a lot of house ruling, but I made it happen.Plus there is a great rule in the first edition DMG that every DM should remember, no matter what game they are running.If anyone reading this has their 1E DMG handy, or still has this rule memorized, I would appreciate you quoting it for me. Essentially Gygax tells us that no matter what the rules say, we, the DM, are the final arbiter of anything that happens within the game, with an eye towards ensuring that the end result is an enjoyable game played by all. No rule supercedes the judgement of the DM, especially if the DM is ruling against the rule for the sake of running a better game.Even C&C's "simplicity" will not prevent Munchkining or powergaming, only the DM will ever be able to do that. Assuming that powergaming and munchkining isn't the DM and his players brand of gaming to begin with.That has never changed, and it never will. I believe today it is called rule "0".</blockquote>

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