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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightcrawler" data-source="post: 344179" data-attributes="member: 5097">I've seen this power-gamer vs. roleplayer in action.  A new gamiing store had opened up in our area.  I spent alot of time there, and a lot of money initially.  The owner asked me to join a group he was running in the store.  He said that I could bring a character I had already played for while.This is before 3rd Edition by the way.  So I brought my Specialty Priest of Tempus, a real asskicker.  They didn't have a cleric in the party.  Now I had roled realitively well when I had made up this character; two 18's and no scores below 11.  Well he took one look at it and said that he would not allow a character with any stat over 16 and that I would have to redice two of my other scoresbelow 9.I was furious.  The character was made by the rules.  I had even asked him if he cared if the character was a specialty priest. he had given his okay.  And the final straw was when he wanted to also take away several of my priests special powers.  I lost my temper at this point.He called me a power gamer and said that anyone who let their players have characters with stats above 16 was an idiot becuase it through the game balance off.  I walked out of there and never went back.  Less than a year later the store was out of business.  First time I was ever glad to see a gaming store go.People are different in their preference for campaigns.  Other than that my experience has been very good.  Yeah I've had some players that liked to be really powerful and smash everything in their path.  But even these players enjoyed and even did well during other parts of the campaign.My current group definitely leans towards the roleplaying aspect over fighting.  But I'm not one to judge people because they might prefer a good fight over playing out a scene in a kings court.For those of you who would like a look at the more humorous side of this check out Steve Jacksons "The Munchkin's Guide To Powergaming".  Its a riot.</blockquote>

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