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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5594646" data-attributes="member: 7006">The character is only a burden if the other players and DM have agreed to overpower their aspects of the game in comparison to yours, and they don't give a rat's ass that you're behind.  If you don't take Expertise but everyone else does... and the DM purposely makes encounters in Epic where even with Expertise the ubers still need 15s (and thus you need an 18 and feel as though you "never freaking hit anything")... that's a flaw of YOUR game.  Your fellow players basically are saying that their personal character builds are more important than the group's as a whole... and your DM is saying that it's more important for him to challenge their characters only, and not the party as a whole.  Your DM is being lazy if he's catering the encounters to the uber-characters.  And yes, that's a flaw of the DM, not the game itself.</blockquote>