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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kristivas" data-source="post: 2407885" data-attributes="member: 34179">About two years ago, I ran a game where players rolled up their characters.  We had some average scores going on, til the Paladin rolled.  Well, it seemed he really was blessed by his god.  The guy amazed me: 18 17 13 14 16 17. Well, he was happy and he did roll that (I use the 4d6 method, drop lowest) and the game began.  From the beginning, things took a dramatic turn.  Feeling vastly superior, he started bossing the other guys around.  He would succeed at nearly every check, and just became more of an ass with each session. Well, a friend suggested I toss in something to bring him down a peg, so I came up with an Ogre who lead around some orc lackeys.  The PCs were only level 2 at this point, so this encounter was pretty much meant to rough them up (especially the paladin) and teach them cooperation (since, in battles, they were all doing their own thing.) Well, it was also a disaster.  As the battle began, the paladin and the ogre with an orc lackey squared off.  They both attacked, missed.  The rest of the party is faring ok, but I'm sitting here thinking to myself that the paladin is about to get a major butt-kicking.  Well, he uses a smite evil and rolls.  20 (with a greatsword).  Rolled to confirm, 19.  I'm kicking myself at this point.  9 (sword) + 6 (str and 1/2) + 2 (smite) + 7 (crit)..  24 out of 29. The next round goes as predicted.  The paladin takes 3 damage from the orc, missed by the ogre (of course), and finished the Ogre off with a neat swing.  By now, several of the party members have dispatched their attackers and are helping play clean-up. 4 PCs against 7 Orcs and an Ogre.  I was beginning to get a little annoyed, but then the paladin made the rest of the party (yes, made them) kneel down and praise Tyr for their victory.  Even the rogue. Well, the party revolts at this point, and they all begin fighting among themselves.  The wizard tries to sleep the paladin for a quick end, Will save succeeded.  They start beating on him, but he took down the wizard first, killed the poor druid, and finished off the rogue with half of his hit points left. Needless to say, the game ended there. Why did I post this amusing (and long) story?  I'd like to know, first off, if anything like this has happened to you?  I'd also like to know some of your house rules for character creation.  I've considered point buy, allowing a few re-rolls, ect. To clarify, I like to have tough PCs.  I don't mind good scores, in fact it's easier for me to run the kind of challenging games I like to run.  The only problem is when 1 PC overshadows all of the others..  *chuckles* Suggestions would be helpful  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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