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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5373769" data-attributes="member: 90804">Do you feel like this character is truly overpowered relative to the others, or is it just that this character has high AC and lots of temporary hit points?  If this character is ALSO dealing out tons of damage, it sounds to me like you have one overpowered character.  This is a problem for the campaign, in my opinion, if it's the case.I <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/balanced-power-parties-are-ideal/" target="_blank">blogged about this</a> a couple of months ago.  If this one player is a power gamer and the others aren't, that's where you run into trouble.  If they're all power gamers or none of them are power gamers, that's fine.  If this character is way above the power curve of the rest of the party, I think it might make sense to talk to the player one on one outside of the game to discuss the issue and to talk about possible solutions.You don't want to have to nerf one player's character - that's a bad experience.  If the player is very accommodating, maybe they will have some suggestions about how to equalize the power levels within the party.  Perhaps there's something that can be done to ramp up the other characters to a similar power level.Overall, it sounds like this character isn't necessarily above the curve, but they just have high AC and lots of hit points.  That can be handled; the onus is just on you as the DM to still make it fun for everyone, and that should be doable by following some of the other suggestions above.  If the character is just super-powered compared to his peers, though, I think you should try to address that as the underlying issue.</blockquote>

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