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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1436778" data-attributes="member: 1656">It doesn't make a difference to the result.&nbsp; But it's not the player's fault.The player who pushes the rules to the very limit and carefully picks a combination of feats and PrC abilities that synergise to create a character who can wipe up the rest of the party by himself, even though everyone uses the same point buy, is to an extent, to blame if everyone else gets bored and feels overshadowed.But if a player who doesn't particularly min/max still ends up overshadowing everyone because he randomly rolled a 51 point character to everyone else's 25 point characters, that's not his fault.The game still ends up being boring for everyone else, because Superman handles every encounter with one hand behind his back while the other characters hold up score cards... but it's not because the player deliberately set out to design a character that outshines everyone.It's similar to the problems that can result if one character goes up several levels and gains a few wishes via a Deck of Many things (the Sun, the Moon, the Jester, and the Comet, say), while the wizard loses several points of Int (the idiot), the cleric loses a level (the Fool), and the Paladin changes alignment and loses all his class abilities (the Balance).&nbsp; It's not the fault of the first player that his character now is significantly more powerful than everyone else.&nbsp; It's simply something that can result when excessive randomness has a permanent impact on the game (Deck of Many Things or random ability generation).-Hyp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 1436778, member: 1656"] It doesn't make a difference to the [i]result[/i]. But it's not the [i]player's[/i] fault. The player who pushes the rules to the very limit and carefully picks a combination of feats and PrC abilities that synergise to create a character who can wipe up the rest of the party by himself, even though everyone uses the same point buy, is to an extent, to blame if everyone else gets bored and feels overshadowed. But if a player who doesn't particularly min/max still ends up overshadowing everyone because he randomly rolled a 51 point character to everyone else's 25 point characters, [i]that's not his fault[/i]. The game still ends up being boring for everyone else, because Superman handles every encounter with one hand behind his back while the other characters hold up score cards... but it's not because the player deliberately set out to design a character that outshines everyone. It's similar to the problems that can result if one character goes up several levels and gains a few wishes via a Deck of Many things (the Sun, the Moon, the Jester, and the Comet, say), while the wizard loses several points of Int (the idiot), the cleric loses a level (the Fool), and the Paladin changes alignment and loses all his class abilities (the Balance). It's not the fault of the first player that his character now is significantly more powerful than everyone else. It's simply something that can result when excessive randomness has a permanent impact on the game (Deck of Many Things or random ability generation). -Hyp. [/QUOTE]

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