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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 1999768" data-attributes="member: 4134">That is from no official WotC book AFAIK. Probably a houserule. And the points are always flexible...  Why not? If the pay the price for it?I have to disagree. If you don't want people to min/max their characters, just tell them so. Don't screw them up behind their back. Saying: "You're very strong (and paid the price for your streangth by being not as agile or tough as you could have been), so for you, the DC to lift the same stone block is higher. Just come clear with people when you don't like what they do, and let them defend themselves instead of secretly cheating them out of their achievementsI rather think that you sould tell them before what kind of campaign you're going to give them - more combats or more social stuff - so they can plan their characters accordingly. The player of a fighter (which is almost always very combat-focused, due to the lack of abilities for out-of-combat interactions. There's no need for powergaming to do this) is going to be just as pissed when he learns that the whole campaign will be social intrigue as will be the player of the diplomat who finds out that you play an all-out dungeon crawl.It is not powergaming or min/maxing when people create characters that fit into the campaign. It's just the desire to have a character who won't be completely useless.</blockquote>