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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5795799" data-attributes="member: 1165">That's still not a complete explanation.Which feats? From which sources? Which equipment? Are you allowing things to stack that shouldn't (do not count on the Character Builder to do the math for you)? Is he within his item budget? Which conditions? Are you allowing everything in the splatbooks/CB?He has such good defense - which ones? Are all of his defenses that good? I can scarcely believe a dwarven warden will have all three NADs being good.4th Edition PCs have more hit points than in previous editions, but they have less than their opponents. (HP bloat is greater on the monster side.) The amount of damage that monsters can dish out is higher than what PCs can dish out. Indeed, that's why PCs have such good healing - they need it. Unless they've cherry-picked item X from Source A and item Y from Source B and feat Z from Source C... Which item? If there's an item that can knock someone unconscious in one round (it's better than a 1st-level daily spell or Lolth's poison) I'd like to know. And if this item is available to 7th-level PCs I want to write a personal email to whoever wrote what splatbook it appeared in to register my disappointment in their publishing unbalanced stuff. I will demand free errata.You're not even dealing with a 4e problem anymore. I think you're just allowing character creation with no guidelines, so your players find the most broken cheese and exploit it with no consequences. If someone allowed this in 3e or Pathfinder, they would run into this problem. (In my group, in addition to DMing Dark Sun, I'm a player in a Pathfinder Kingmaker campaign. My PC druid - generally one of the strongest classes - is only mid-rank in power, falling behind such combos as alchemist/barbarians [rage stacks with the alchemist's Potion of Growth] and cavalier/alchemists [Potion of Shield every encounter]. This doesn't make Pathfinder broken, it means the DM shouldn't have told us to use APG and other splat material.)</blockquote>

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