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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5953573" data-attributes="member: 9037">In my experience this causes a lot of resentful feelings. Not everyone wants to play a super optimized character and resent having to give up their concept just to match the powergamer.Also some DMs can't handle a party maxed to the limit and the game becomes to much for the DM and boring for the players. Here is how I handle powergamers. First if the other players are not having any issues with it and I have checked to see if it is a legit build I just go with it.I don't care if I can't touch him if this is his idea of fun playing a super type character then why shouldn't I let him have his fun. My job as DM is to facilitate players having fun not to almost kill their PC.If it becomes an issue with the other players feeling over shadowed then I sit down and talk to the powergamer and ask how they think we can fix this. I have found that doing it this way asking for his help makes him feel part of the solution not the problem. 9 out of 10 times the powergamer finds away to tweak his character so he is still having fun but not where he is stepping on the other players feet. In the rare occurrence where the player does not care that he is ruining everyone else fun then they have either made a new build or left the game.</blockquote>