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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malachei" data-source="post: 5420935" data-attributes="member: 38657">@ perrinmiller: I don't think that if HM would have allowed your items you'd be any happier, because then you'd not have an excuse left for paling against the dino stampede. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Also, IMO, there can be wonderful roleplay even in a dungeon crawl. One of the decisions a group of players takes is where to focus. If the posts would focus on the party, instead of the dungeon rooms and the combat mechanics, the whole game feel would be entirely different. In the "come on, let's get rolling" atmosphere this game had (probably a sense of urgency, perhaps because of the long campaign), roleplaying efforts quickly vanished.@ HM: IMO, one of the responsibilities as a DM is party balance. There might be the rare altruist, who does not care, but most players want a fair share of the action. I'm not sure, but I guess you did not have a close look at the submitted characters in comparison. Even for Aden, who, as a caster, does not compete directly with the dinos' damage, this is an issue (why cast a spell or try a sneak attack at all?) -- but for Dargun and Morrolan, it means the dinos take their role, and they feel pretty useless. As I said, this does not require much creativity. All of us can google "fighter's handbook", have a look at the CO boards and create a decent charger build in short time -- having built the most powerful character in a party is nothing to be proud of. But both as a player and a DM, I prefer games that do not require or even reward an "arms race".@ Vertexx69: What's actually a surprise to me, is that you don't seem to have any issue at all with the fact that your build makes the other front-line fighters mere bystanders.</blockquote>

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