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<blockquote data-quote="Somebloke" data-source="post: 4854257" data-attributes="member: 67268">I have been in a campaign where this happened, almost by accident. &nbsp;It was a Conan campaign; one of the players had been addending every night and thus had reached a relatively higher levels than everyone else. This, coupled with some very lucky stat roles and a clever (rather than outright powergaming) player, meant that she was not only the best fighter but also the best negotiator, etc. &nbsp;Compounded in this was the fact that since the player had been around for ever, they had the most in-depth backstory and the most impetus with the DM to run her goals for the campaign (Conan being a pro-active rather than re-active setting). &nbsp;The end result of this was a character who could wade through enemies levelled for the rest of us without fear, set most of the agenda in the game, handled diplomacy better than the actual diplomat (she was playing a soldier at that) and finished off most of the big bads. She ended up being crowned Queen of Brithurnia in the campaign finalle, the last few sessions of which could be described as &quot;Character x and friends&quot;. &nbsp;To be fair- a) both the player and the DM were excellent (we played another game shortly after and there were no problems whatsoever) b) there were a lot of extenuating circumstances (the numbers heavily favoured such a role) and c) I joined very late but even so it really only became an issue for me in the last few sessions, which were part of an adventure arc that had been slowly building up for ages. &nbsp;I suppose the moral here is that Mary Sues can happen to anyone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Somebloke, post: 4854257, member: 67268"] I have been in a campaign where this happened, almost by accident. It was a Conan campaign; one of the players had been addending every night and thus had reached a relatively higher levels than everyone else. This, coupled with some very lucky stat roles and a clever (rather than outright powergaming) player, meant that she was not only the best fighter but also the best negotiator, etc. Compounded in this was the fact that since the player had been around for ever, they had the most in-depth backstory and the most impetus with the DM to run her goals for the campaign (Conan being a pro-active rather than re-active setting). The end result of this was a character who could wade through enemies levelled for the rest of us without fear, set most of the agenda in the game, handled diplomacy better than the actual diplomat (she was playing a soldier at that) and finished off most of the big bads. She ended up being crowned Queen of Brithurnia in the campaign finalle, the last few sessions of which could be described as "Character x and friends". To be fair- a) both the player and the DM were excellent (we played another game shortly after and there were no problems whatsoever) b) there were a lot of extenuating circumstances (the numbers heavily favoured such a role) and c) I joined very late but even so it really only became an issue for me in the last few sessions, which were part of an adventure arc that had been slowly building up for ages. I suppose the moral here is that Mary Sues can happen to anyone. [/QUOTE]

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