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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wujenta" data-source="post: 1571894" data-attributes="member: 7069">Hi everyone,    In our group there is a powergamer. That is a fact. I am the primary DM (90% of the games are run by me), and I am trying to put some house rules to prevent powergamig. I like a powerful character, but sometimes to threaten the powergamer, I have to put an enemy capable of TPK the other party members.    In the last game we were fighting against a dragon with an armor class of 48, and in one round, he dealt more than 200 hp. We were playing the epic level module from dungeon 93 and he was a 20 level paladin / sorcerer / eldritch knight /spellsword hasted with greataxe, polimorphed in a stone giant, activating arcane strike with a 6th level spell, activating divine might, and making a smite attack in the third attack with a charisma bonus of +8 I think, and thank god he doesnt score a critical. His armor was nearly 40 without a shield, far better than the other 2-handed users of the party.  The other members of the party were: a 23 level cleric, a 20 level fighter/rogue, a rogue 21, a monk 22 and a fighter/cleric 20.  The dragon survived the attack and in the next round put him in the negatives. After that, the rest of the group managed to kill the dragon with some luck involved.    He always has been a powergamer, but 2 or 3 months ago he discovered enworld (I know now that I should never told him about this site) and has been looking for all kind of ideas about min/maxing his characters. I have been playing with him for 10 years more or less, heck, he was the one who introduced me to roleplay.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   As you can see, the other players and I,  dont like a lot prestige classes, we use them, but not with every character (I have a rogue/wizard/arcane trickster/archmage for example other player has a fighter/wizard/eldritch knight and other one has a fighter/weapon master)      So what kind of house rules do you think I can put in use to stop him to make all other pc´s be simple followers?    Ah, I forgothi Oscar, I know you will be reading this sooner or later. <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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