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<blockquote data-quote="boredgremlin" data-source="post: 3504632" data-attributes="member: 31646">in my games as DM powergaming is a waste of the players time. &nbsp; I dont follow encounters per level or any of that silly crap. We have one or two fights in a 6 to 8 hour game. The vast majority of our games is spent talking and roleplaying. So if someone wants to make a combat monster thats fine. He had just better be happy watching everyone else RP for 6 or so hours every week until they mess up enough to get into a fight. &nbsp; &nbsp; Patient power gamers are great. Give hem a pizza and beer while everyone else plays the game. Then when everyone is done with the good RP and a fight comes up they can turn off the TV, put down the pizza and roll some dice. &nbsp; All powergamers are is dice rollers anyway. Just an NPC that the DM doesnt have to roll for. I love them. They make my life as DM easy. I just need to focus on the other players for most of the game. As soon as the fun RP stuff is done we'll summon the power gamers to roll the dice with the rest of the group and drop the playstation. &nbsp; they really arent part of the group. they have no use outside of rolling dice in combat and really dont need to even show up to the game ( i can easily make optimized monsters and NPC's to take thier place) but hey... thier friends. &nbsp; So all the real gamers ignore them and play our game. Then when we need an NPC to come roll dice and add numbers we call you over. You roll a few dice, add a few numbers and then go away while the gamers RP. &nbsp;&nbsp; Its an easy system. The Powergamers just dont need to have a life or friends.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="boredgremlin, post: 3504632, member: 31646"] in my games as DM powergaming is a waste of the players time. I dont follow encounters per level or any of that silly crap. We have one or two fights in a 6 to 8 hour game. The vast majority of our games is spent talking and roleplaying. So if someone wants to make a combat monster thats fine. He had just better be happy watching everyone else RP for 6 or so hours every week until they mess up enough to get into a fight. Patient power gamers are great. Give hem a pizza and beer while everyone else plays the game. Then when everyone is done with the good RP and a fight comes up they can turn off the TV, put down the pizza and roll some dice. All powergamers are is dice rollers anyway. Just an NPC that the DM doesnt have to roll for. I love them. They make my life as DM easy. I just need to focus on the other players for most of the game. As soon as the fun RP stuff is done we'll summon the power gamers to roll the dice with the rest of the group and drop the playstation. they really arent part of the group. they have no use outside of rolling dice in combat and really dont need to even show up to the game ( i can easily make optimized monsters and NPC's to take thier place) but hey... thier friends. So all the real gamers ignore them and play our game. Then when we need an NPC to come roll dice and add numbers we call you over. You roll a few dice, add a few numbers and then go away while the gamers RP. Its an easy system. The Powergamers just dont need to have a life or friends. [/QUOTE]

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