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<blockquote data-quote="Tuft" data-source="post: 5565776" data-attributes="member: 60045">&quot;Power creep&quot; usually refers to combat ability. It's easy to for the DM to handle any given combat power creep, since he is in full control of the world - just compensate by increasing whatever monster property is necessary. Players hitting too well? Just add a bit to monster defense. Players doing too much damage? Increase monster HP. Repeat until satisfied. The DM is not constrained in what he can do; he can do any number of damage up to and including the classical infallible &quot;Rocks fall, everybody dies!&quot; annihilation.Exploiting power creep and other min-maxing is just chasing illusions, as the DM always, always can compensate by adjusting his monster builds. As a player you cannot &quot;win&quot; over the DM. The only thing you can do is shut out your fellow players in your own party by being overpowering...(In the same way, you cannot &quot;lose&quot; by making &quot;sub-standard&quot; builds from a min-max perspective, as the DM can just as well adjust in the other direction - as long as the entire party is in on it. )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tuft, post: 5565776, member: 60045"] "Power creep" usually refers to combat ability. It's easy to for the DM to handle any given combat power creep, since he is in full control of the world - just compensate by increasing whatever monster property is necessary. Players hitting too well? Just add a bit to monster defense. Players doing too much damage? Increase monster HP. Repeat until satisfied. The DM is not constrained in what he can do; he can do any number of damage up to and including the classical infallible "Rocks fall, everybody dies!" annihilation. Exploiting power creep and other min-maxing is just chasing illusions, as the DM always, always can compensate by adjusting his monster builds. As a player you cannot "win" over the DM. The only thing you can do is shut out your fellow players in your own party by being overpowering... (In the same way, you cannot "lose" by making "sub-standard" builds from a min-max perspective, as the DM can just as well adjust in the other direction - as long as the entire party is in on it. ) [/QUOTE]

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