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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9099456" data-attributes="member: 7006">No doubt!And to me as a DM, the downside of having that player is that I oftentimes feel like I should make up things for them to spot due to their massively high Perception just so it feels to the player like it got some actual use.&nbsp; Because otherwise-- since the high-Perception player would just pass on the information to the rest of the group anyway-- any descriptions I give will just include any secretive stuff to the entire table to begin with.&nbsp; Which means the entire party hears it and the high-Perception player doesn't really get a feeling of being the special one.I mean, I could give general descriptions to the table and then pull the high-Perception person aside and give them the extra-secret stuff to then pass on to the rest of the group... but after like the first three times of doing that the novelty has worn off.&nbsp; And I suspect that's true with almost all characters that have a overly high ability or feature.&nbsp; It's cool to begin with... but then just becomes rote.&nbsp; It's why I think most players at the end of the day would probably find themselves more engaged with all parts of the game if their abilities were more spread out rather than all-in on a single one.&nbsp; But I could be wrong about that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9099456, member: 7006"] No doubt! And to me as a DM, the downside of having that player is that I oftentimes feel like I should [I]make up[/I] things for them to spot due to their massively high Perception just so it feels to the player like it got some actual use. Because otherwise-- since the high-Perception player would just pass on the information to the rest of the group anyway-- any descriptions I give will just include any secretive stuff to the entire table to begin with. Which means the entire party hears it and the high-Perception player doesn't really get a feeling of being the special one. I mean, I [I]could[/I] give general descriptions to the table and then pull the high-Perception person aside and give them the extra-secret stuff to then pass on to the rest of the group... but after like the first three times of doing that the novelty has worn off. And I suspect that's true with almost all characters that have a overly high ability or feature. It's cool to begin with... but then just becomes rote. It's why I think most players at the end of the day would probably find themselves more engaged with all parts of the game if their abilities were more spread out rather than all-in on a single one. But I could be wrong about that. [/QUOTE]

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