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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenes" data-source="post: 1552089" data-attributes="member: 604">I think the biggest problem is, as was mentioned, when you mix playstyles. In my campaign I had to disallow a minmaxed character (celric) since it would have rendered the fighters obsolete. In my opinion, a party should be balanced. If you have three roleplayers playing non-minmaxed fighter characters - a knight, a barbarian and a duellist and they are supposed to be among the best in their field, fighting - then there simply is no place for a cleric optimised for fighting who would overshadow them in their fields while retaining full spellcasting abilities.In such cases the "max" in "minmaxing" is not defined by the core rules, but by the other characters' power level, and you either build a character that adheres to that, or don't play with us. You do not expect us to minmax to the same degree.Another point is that it is simply too much of a chore to balance opponents for an unbalanced party. Not much fun for the rest of the party either, if their combat characters can't hit the challenge for the minmaxed combat characters.</blockquote>