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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3332328" data-attributes="member: 22424">1) Encourage the rest of the players to likewise powergame their characters. This is necessary, or step 2 will backfire badly.2) Increase the average EL you throw at the characters.3) Make sure you keep the challenges many and varied, and don't allow the players to 'dodge' their PCs weak spots. Most power-builds are constructed to be super-optimised. They're good at one thing, at the expense of everything else. So, if you keep the challenges varied, that should negate the power-gaming. He'll excel in his area, and others will shine in other areas. (By not letting them dodge weaknesses, what do I mean? Well, the classic example is the player who assigns a 6 to Cha, and then expects to role-play his way out of any situation what Cha would apply.)4) Make sure you read up on his character's powers, and be sure to enforce the limitations of them. A lot of 'power-gamers' are actually cheats, in that they 'accidentally' forget that you can't stack two enhancement bonuses, or whatever. The game is generally reasonably good at balancing itself... provided you apply the limits. (You should do the same for all the characters, of course.)</blockquote>