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<blockquote data-quote="Naoki00_" data-source="post: 5615499" data-attributes="member: 99243"><p>to Umbran: I can perfectly understand that, infact it would be more encouraged if not for the setting (the character I play is supposed to be so powerful Ao had her sealed away for fear of her growing to powerful, even he can't kill her for good story-wise) but what he's doing is simply saying that we can't do something right now, or pulling a challenge out of no where again and again in times when they really shouldn't (such as the above deity encounter in the 2nd place we ever visited), this isn't to say all the combat is a curbstomp because we all like to toy with our food per-say, which is half the fun of messing with the opposition and reducing their hope to nill, or doing no combat at all and taking over politically with a bit of magic and charisma....(an example of the afformentioned 'not working now' when my character became the negative energy plane itself she's now the most evil radiating thing in existence and can completely control ALL negative energy and where it goes, but he ruled that until she's 'more experienced' she can't make all undead and undead users follow her, even though she's more magically in tune and and aware then most magic deities)</p><p></p><p>to ranes: first off, thanks for the introduction! and to your post, we've been trying to approach this kindly in our own ways, but he's very adamant that he's as good a DM as I and the other one of our members that DM's (not to be selfish or insulting at all, but we've never upset any of our sessions or had these issues even with overpowered characters), he simply doesn't listen to us when we try to approach it...lately we've just not been playing that campaign in order to avoid fighting and I don't want it abandoned as the plot is rather epic for it's simplicity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Naoki00_, post: 5615499, member: 99243"] to Umbran: I can perfectly understand that, infact it would be more encouraged if not for the setting (the character I play is supposed to be so powerful Ao had her sealed away for fear of her growing to powerful, even he can't kill her for good story-wise) but what he's doing is simply saying that we can't do something right now, or pulling a challenge out of no where again and again in times when they really shouldn't (such as the above deity encounter in the 2nd place we ever visited), this isn't to say all the combat is a curbstomp because we all like to toy with our food per-say, which is half the fun of messing with the opposition and reducing their hope to nill, or doing no combat at all and taking over politically with a bit of magic and charisma....(an example of the afformentioned 'not working now' when my character became the negative energy plane itself she's now the most evil radiating thing in existence and can completely control ALL negative energy and where it goes, but he ruled that until she's 'more experienced' she can't make all undead and undead users follow her, even though she's more magically in tune and and aware then most magic deities) to ranes: first off, thanks for the introduction! and to your post, we've been trying to approach this kindly in our own ways, but he's very adamant that he's as good a DM as I and the other one of our members that DM's (not to be selfish or insulting at all, but we've never upset any of our sessions or had these issues even with overpowered characters), he simply doesn't listen to us when we try to approach it...lately we've just not been playing that campaign in order to avoid fighting and I don't want it abandoned as the plot is rather epic for it's simplicity. [/QUOTE]
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