DM : "Your fighter does too much damage. Drop the belt of strength."

[sckeener]

5'2" tall and weighs 67 pounds!

That explains it. The damage output is fine except his bones are hollow and takes double damage when hit. silly....

seriously, you are stressing your DM out. Give him a break. Either redesign the character or agree with him about the belt. You are min/maxing. If this had been a character you had for ages, I'd agree with you, but it isn't. I think the DM has been very good for allowing you to be able to use so many resources already. If you want to make sure he doesn't complain much about the character, try using only the PHB as a resource.

 

[Einan]

Question,

The authoratative answer without a doubt is your D.M. is completely in error and being unreasonable. Your PC is legal both technically and within the spirit of the rules. Such a magic item is a given at such a high level and any experienced D.M. should know this. Your D.M.'s logic is flawed and his decision is capricious and will likely handicap your character excessively.

If you click on the number next to this post it will appear in its own Window. You can cut and paste the link and send it to your D.M. alternatively, you can print it out and send it to him/her.

This is the post you were hoping for - so there it is. Glad to be of service.

Can I get your permission to cheat on my taxes? Erm, I mean, to min/max my taxes? Erm, I mean, to munchkin them up a bit? Erm, I mean, to play my taxes as my taxes wish to be played? (Yeah, that's it!)

Einan

 

[Agent Oracle]

Okay, so the game is starting at level 16? He must be shooting for an epic campaign before this is all over.

Anyhow, to re-iterate what everyone else has said: talk to your DM. The mere fact that you can (without critical hits) effectively one-round kill a Marileth (CR 17) means you found a way to abuse the system.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

I can agree with Question that it is a poor way to try to bring his PC into line (taking away the belt of strength) but I feel that the character in question is still problematical and needs to be addressed. Dumping the Ebberon Prc, Half-Dragon Template or Ebberon feats would be the better way to go.

 

[just__al]

Also, for the record, when you buy items for starting at higher levels, you should not have anything costing over (I think it is) half of the wealth for that levels, your scimitar is way out of line.

I have always gone with the "forty-twenty rule" your most expensive item cannot be more than 40% of your starting gold, all other items cannot be more than 20%

I have ever so stretched this to about 43% for the big item but it eliminates starting higher level characters with one cool item and no other non-mundane gear of note

 

[ARandomGod]

You're right (to the best of my knowledge) about the bracers, but Complete Arcane introduced the 3.5e Vest of Resistance, giving them the same cost as the cloak.

Bracers of natural armor, while not an item in the DMG, I do think is in the correct body slot nonetheless. Since Bracers of Armor are in that slot as well, armor seems to be a bracers thing.

 

[AdamBomb]

Question,
You came here and posted looking for ammo to take back to your DM for reasons not to turn down the munchkin volume on your PC.
You're not getting any support. Has it occured to you that maybe, your character is a little overpowered?
What if we say you can keep the belt, but lower your strength score by -8. Are you happy with that?
The belt isn't the issue here. A character that fits in with the rest of the PC's and doesn't overrun the game is.

 

[Particle_Man]

If it were me, I would get rid of that prestige class. Aycheemama!

 

[Mercule]

The game hasnt started yet. The DM is refusing to "sit down and knock out the kinks" as one might say.

First, if you're approaching him with an attitude at all like what you're showing in this thread -- to the people from whom you asked opinions -- he's probably not really wanting to talk to you at all.

Game hasn't started? The GM is free to allow/disallow any concept or build he cares to. End of story.

That said, I think the GM is knocking out a kink on his own. It happens to be the wrong kink. He should ban the build as a whole.

Im the only PC not allowed to have a belt of strength. Why?

Because he's a pansy who won't tell you that your character sucks. He's doing a minor nerf in the hopes that you'll toe the broken line instead of cross it. I think he's wrong, but I don't know the whole campaign.

My actual bet is that the character is top-heavy and will end up getting gutted by a dread wraith or some such.

The PC is broken.

Ah, grasshopper, you have come far. Now, meditate on this truth.

 

[Squire James]

I'm kinda with the crowd on this one, Question.

In my opinion, picking on the Belt was not the right thing to do. However, combining a "bizarro race" (i.e. a race who couldn't walk in a normal D&D town without causing people to run away screaming) with region-specific feats from another campaign setting and a prestige class that may not be any better known to your DM than me, you have a character the DM considers unmanageable.

You have what the old "Magic the Gathering" deck-builders called a "Combo Winter" deck. None of the selections you made are in themselves bad, but the combination of them makes an unbalanced character build (you'll win a lot, but won't allow others to have fun). In my opinion, the Eberron feats/items and the prestige class seems to be at fault more than anything else. As a DM, I would have intercepted you earlier in the process and made you remove them.

Lose the Belt and be glad he doesn't ask for what he should be asking for. He's being more than reasonable.