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<blockquote data-quote="lukelightning" data-source="post: 2700087" data-attributes="member: 9745">Really the best thing to do is say &quot;hey, your character is too powerful, we need to do something.&quot;I found the Vow of Poverty to be one of the worst ideas ever.&nbsp; We had a VoP Monk join the party (they seem to sprout up everywhere).&nbsp; It put a lot of pressure on the rest of the party...we had to heal him (because he can't carry potions, etc), and generally act as his mules.&nbsp; Then there is all the metagaming involved: the DM has to reduce all the treasure found, otherwise the other folks get too much gold; that just made it seem unfair to the rest of us that we were getting less gold because Poverty Dude can't hold a coin without getting punished by God.We solved this problem by being not-too-concerned about Poverty Dude when he got surrounded by orcs and then laid bleeding on the ground.&nbsp; &quot;Sucks that you can't carry a potion of healing, doesn't it?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lukelightning, post: 2700087, member: 9745"] Really the best thing to do is say "hey, your character is too powerful, we need to do something." I found the Vow of Poverty to be one of the worst ideas ever. We had a VoP Monk join the party (they seem to sprout up everywhere). It put a lot of pressure on the rest of the party...we had to heal him (because he can't carry potions, etc), and generally act as his mules. Then there is all the metagaming involved: the DM has to reduce all the treasure found, otherwise the other folks get too much gold; that just made it seem unfair to the rest of us that we were getting less gold because Poverty Dude can't hold a coin without getting punished by God. We solved this problem by being not-too-concerned about Poverty Dude when he got surrounded by orcs and then laid bleeding on the ground. "Sucks that you can't carry a potion of healing, doesn't it?" [/QUOTE]

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