Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="random user" data-source="post: 1832623" data-attributes="member: 16581">I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I was justifying it.&nbsp; I read the original comment, thought about it some, and decided my players weren't powergamers and moved on.&nbsp; Some people then later replied, and I was curious to his replies.&nbsp; When I re-read his post, I realized his real question was &quot;Is powergaming common?&quot; That's when I decided to respond that my players were not.&nbsp; Whenever I state something, I try to give at least one example, just so people get a better idea of what my statement means.&nbsp; On occassion, I've misunderstood the question, or I'm on a different page than another person; in those instances examples help both of us.Ah yeah I remember that conversation now.&nbsp; We talked about it, and he had come up with a detailed history regarding why he used a hand crossbow, and after talking to all the players, I rule 0'd that it wouldn't be unbalancing him for him to take it.&nbsp; In general I don't like to change rules, but unanimously the players decided it would be good, and I went along with it.That's a bit tricky.&nbsp; Several posters have made good suggestions above.&nbsp; In addition to asking &quot;why&quot; I would say that you can ask that in the game as well, and then take a reasonable scenario to thwart him.For example, the player wants to go through a ritual to become a vampire even though he's not evil.&nbsp; After finding a couple people who refuse to help him, he finds someone who is going to charge him a lot (or otherwise make it non-trivial).&nbsp; He sets up the ritual and... of course it doesn't work because he's not evil.So now he's out the money, but he signed a carefully worded contract that simply said that he would be allowed to go through the ritual, not that the ritual would help him in any way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="random user, post: 1832623, member: 16581"] I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I was justifying it. I read the original comment, thought about it some, and decided my players weren't powergamers and moved on. Some people then later replied, and I was curious to his replies. When I re-read his post, I realized his real question was "Is powergaming common?" That's when I decided to respond that my players were not. Whenever I state something, I try to give at least one example, just so people get a better idea of what my statement means. On occassion, I've misunderstood the question, or I'm on a different page than another person; in those instances examples help both of us. Ah yeah I remember that conversation now. We talked about it, and he had come up with a detailed history regarding why he used a hand crossbow, and after talking to all the players, I rule 0'd that it wouldn't be unbalancing him for him to take it. In general I don't like to change rules, but unanimously the players decided it would be good, and I went along with it. That's a bit tricky. Several posters have made good suggestions above. In addition to asking "why" I would say that you can ask that in the game as well, and then take a reasonable scenario to thwart him. For example, the player wants to go through a ritual to become a vampire even though he's not evil. After finding a couple people who refuse to help him, he finds someone who is going to charge him a lot (or otherwise make it non-trivial). He sets up the ritual and... of course it doesn't work because he's not evil. So now he's out the money, but he signed a carefully worded contract that simply said that he would be allowed to go through the ritual, not that the ritual would help him in any way. [/QUOTE]

Verification