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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2360842" data-attributes="member: 5143">Yes, I understand.  This happens in my games too.  It isn't so much the amount of damage that they do than the fact that they kill enemies before they even get to act.For instance, in my game recently, I was using a level 15 Cleric as an enemy(by himself).  He had around 85 hps, if I remember correctly.  The party averaged 11th level.  I had a half-ogre barbarian/fighter in my group.  His strength was 26 before raging and 30 after.  With a +1 sword and weapon focus, it meant that his pluses to hit were +21 while raging.  Without power attacking his damage was 5d6+16 (+1 large vicious greatsword).The cleric, being an NPC and having NPC gear had an AC of 26.  So, If he power attacks for 9 (his full BAB), he had +12 to hit and needs to roll a 14, not easy, but not impossible.  With his full power attack, he does 5d6+34, slightly above average that is 54 damage.  This battle ended with the barbarian going first, rolling a crit for over 100 damage and the cleric dying.But, the problem here isn't so much power attack as the fact that strength is too useful as it increases.  1.5 times your strength becomes more and more useful the more strength you have.  I've actually created a wizard once who was better than the fighter in the group at melee damage simply because of his strength. (he was actually a half-orc barbarian 1/wizard 14)</blockquote>