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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wild Gazebo" data-source="post: 2211393" data-attributes="member: 24413">I was just saying...power inconsitencies are more apparent at higher levels.I know where you are coming fun, and I feel sympathetic.  I've been in games where the DM ignored Level Adjustment...things get out of hand.  If one person is dominating a game be it combat, or simply time, players can get annoyed.  I tend to sit there and mediate (unbeknowst to the other players) by actively bowing out or trying different aspects of the situation.  It doesn't happen often.  I probably do this because I never really stop being a DM...sure I may be a player, but I don't think the DM in me ever really leaves.Currently I'm a player in a game that revolves around my character...he is not more powerful than the other characters stat-wise, but caste-wise he is.  Because of this I tend to bow out of some combat situations and treasure situations.  I am, by far, more interested in roleplaying so when the situation comes up for a good old dungeon crawl:  I do my part, but let other mediate the treasure, let others take the juciest monsters, let others solve the riddles.  This isn't because my character is incapable of it...he's a war priest and very comparable to the single classed fighter...it is because I feel there should be a balance of playstyle, time management, and fun.  All of this is self impossed though, and I don't feel neglected, because at times the players are chompin' at the bit to kill stuff as I'm gabbing with the guard at the entrance to the king's throne room <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=":)" />.  Which is just as annoying to some as a character dominating combat encounters.</blockquote>

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