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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 3179929" data-attributes="member: 18701">Thanks for expressing your thoughts about this, but I don't think there is anything wrong with the gift I've decided to give him. It gives him the chance to make his PC look a little cooler. A powergamer might think making him even stronger is what makes him look cooler...but that's one of the reasons I dislike powergaming, and I'm not here to discuss pros/cons of powergaming. I've already explained why I dont' want to give him something that will improve something he wants improved...I don't want to reward him for nit-picking at the rules for 2 weeks until he thinks he's created a character that can "beat" all of my NPC's 24/7. I prefer players inventing interesting chracter concepts that will add to the storyline and help me create awesome adventuring opportunities. Most powergamers I've met don't do that.This player spent every penny he had to get +2 Full Plate, +2 Shield, yadda yadda yadda, and started the game borrowing cash from players (just to pay for normal goods & services) and weilding normal (not even masterwork) weapons. He actually told me, "It'll be easier for me to find +1 weapons than it will be to get +2 armor/shields...so I bought the +2 gear". Sorry, but I'm not going to encourage powergaming by giving him what he wants so he'll be even more powerful than everyone else. The other players didn't spend 2 weeks flipping through books making notes and trying to optimize a PC with precise choices. And I don't have time nor the patience to powergame NPC's just so they will be challenging to him. It's not fair to the other players if I help this guy be even more optimized than them.I won't tell him he can't powergame, but I do ask that he be reasonable for the sake of the other players. If he likes D&D for the powergaming, then I'm not going to totally take away his fun. The item I'm giving him is not useless by any means. If he thinks it's useless, that's just another reason I don't care for powergaming. Me not giving him the items he wants should be a good thing for a powergamer...it means that I'm giving him more of an opportunity to powergame to make up for the lack of cool magic items  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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