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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8055792" data-attributes="member: 5948">I've found my PC being made irrelevant by others before.This was our first 3e campaign, all the way to level 20, but the GM was still learning how the game worked and gave out a few overbalanced homebrew items etc.  The result was that the monk PC was ludicrously powerful, with the wizard a decent second, while the cleric and my shadowdancer trailed way, way behind.  I was the stealthiest stealther that ever stealthed, but that's of limited utility unless you're going solo a lot - less so when you've got a party of others running around with you.  We mostly made it work, but the rest of the party were clearly overshadowed by the monk.  In the final battle of the campaign, the GM had brewed up a bad guy especially to challenge the monk's AC and damage output, and I tried to help the monk out by flanking, and the NPC casually one-shot me in less than a round and then turned back to the main event.  It was pretty anticlimactic and disappointing really.  While the game in the high levels was very obviously 'the adventures of monk and friends', I very rarely felt my PC was actually genuinely useless with no way to contribute meaningfully, but that encounter and character death certainly did it.(The other time, ironically, was in the same campaign when the GM gave me a powerful magic weapon to help try to equalise the power curve a bit.  One of its effects was to allow me to move in perfect silence.  But I'd been sinking loads of skill points into Move Silently since first level - and to have all those just casually obsoleted by a fancy sword?  Aaaargh!)</blockquote>

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