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<blockquote data-quote="DaveDash" data-source="post: 6534122" data-attributes="member: 6786202"><p>Are the other players in the same boat as him? You might want to ask him to tone it down because you may find it difficult to challenge this one player, and other players may end up feeling a bit useless as a result. Also a lot of the default monster content is not designed with optimisers in mind, so be prepared to do a little bit more work as a DM if you allow optimisation at your table. The baseline is more roleplay rather than rollplay.</p><p></p><p>Now having said that, I don't think that combination is particularly powerful. He is creating a dependency on melee, which later on, will come to bite him. He will be pretty powerful when the circumstances are right, but pretty meh a lot of the other times. Just have 20 Orcs shoot at him with bows and he might think twice about building a character optimised to do one little thing very well. </p><p>Also this edition is all about party optimisation instead of character optimisation, so you might want to chat to him about that. What's he doing that's making the party more optimal? Monsters might just start ignoring him and dropping the weaker party members.</p><p></p><p>Multi-classing isn't really that bad in this edition, there's usually a trade off. The feats you really need to watch out for are Sharpshooter + Crossbow Expert.</p><p></p><p>Edited for clarity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaveDash, post: 6534122, member: 6786202"] Are the other players in the same boat as him? You might want to ask him to tone it down because you may find it difficult to challenge this one player, and other players may end up feeling a bit useless as a result. Also a lot of the default monster content is not designed with optimisers in mind, so be prepared to do a little bit more work as a DM if you allow optimisation at your table. The baseline is more roleplay rather than rollplay. Now having said that, I don't think that combination is particularly powerful. He is creating a dependency on melee, which later on, will come to bite him. He will be pretty powerful when the circumstances are right, but pretty meh a lot of the other times. Just have 20 Orcs shoot at him with bows and he might think twice about building a character optimised to do one little thing very well. Also this edition is all about party optimisation instead of character optimisation, so you might want to chat to him about that. What's he doing that's making the party more optimal? Monsters might just start ignoring him and dropping the weaker party members. Multi-classing isn't really that bad in this edition, there's usually a trade off. The feats you really need to watch out for are Sharpshooter + Crossbow Expert. Edited for clarity. [/QUOTE]
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