What's the most broken PC you've ever seen?

[Telas]

Embarrasing DM Stories... no extra charge

OK, this isn't quite on topic, but still....

I once DM'd a guy who got the Invulnerable Coat of Arnd and killed Asmodeus. Yes it was in junior high school... why do you ask? My only solution was to have him ascend to Asgard and become Thor's shieldmaid-er, dude.

If we learn from our mistakes, I'm frickin' brilliant.

Telas

 

[Jhulae]

The most broken PC I've ever seen was my brother's Cleric who was down to 3 HP and then got critted by a hill giant.

 

[Saeviomagy]

That reminds me. In a recent session, the players were fighting something (I don't recall what) that a torch would have been VERY useful for. I even suggested it to them. No one had a torch. Not a single person. Everyone in the party had low-light/darkvision. They didn't see a use for it. I'm like, come on, this is D&D, you don't have a torch? It doesn't matter if you can see in the dark, you still carry at least a couple torches...

I'm guessing they were fighting a swarm. Our (1st level) party just did the same thing. None of us had thought to buy torches, and we conveniently found a sunrod on the way to the dungeon, so we had nothing that would burn. We had to run away from beetles and buy some lantern oil, torches and alchemist's fire...

 

[hong]

(bladesinger AC 39)

Now how did you manage that?

Rough stab:

10
+5 Dex 20
+5 Int 20
+7 mithral chain shirt +3 (from magic vestment)
+3 fighting defensively (5 ranks Tumble)
+9 Superior Expertise

= AC 39

 

[Keoki]

A 1st-level human monk with two flaws (Shaky from Unearthed Arcana and No Time for Book Learning from DRAGON Magazine) and the feats Sacred Vow, Vow of Nonviolence, Vow of Peace, and Vow of Poverty. Using a 32-point buy to give him the following stats: Str 14, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 8, Wis 16, and Cha 8, at 1st level he has AC 26, touch 24, flat-footed 23.

 

[hong]

A 1st-level human monk with two flaws (Shaky from Unearthed Arcana and No Time for Book Learning from DRAGON Magazine) and the feats Sacred Vow, Vow of Nonviolence, Vow of Peace, and Vow of Poverty. Using a 32-point buy to give him the following stats: Str 14, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 8, Wis 16, and Cha 8, at 1st level he has AC 26, touch 24, flat-footed 23.

Mind you, with Vows of Peace and Nonviolence he ain't going to be doing much buttkicking....

 

[diaglo]

Mind you, with Vows of Peace and Nonviolence he ain't going to be doing much buttkicking....

yeah, he sounds like the target.

run around combat and get everyone to attack him. so the rest of the party can pummel the opposition unmolested.

 

[Rystil Arden]

yeah, he sounds like the target.

run around combat and get everyone to attack him. so the rest of the party can pummel the opposition unmolested.

The problem with being unhittable but not attacking is that you can't really just expect to be the target. The enemy gets to pick who to attack, so unless its mindless, it'll hit the people who are hurting it instead of the guy who just stands there and is impossible to hit.

That said, having heard of but never seen in play the Hulking Hurler, the most broken character I've seen was a PC's cohort from 3.0: Nymph Monk/Fighter/Duelist/Templar/Cleric/MysticWanderer/WeaponMaster[Mercurial Greatsword]:

She had something crazy like 60 AC after items, and her saves were so high that she was very nearly immune to spells with saves thanks to Mettle and Evasion. She did decently high damage with her Mercurial Greatsword, although that part of her was not broken. She really came into her own when she was captured by the party's enemies and put inside an arcane version of those psionic skin-things that allowed her to use some offensive spells. She killed off everyone in the party and all the NPCs they brought with them except for the flying azer, who flew away from the fight, but they eventually killed her by having everyone buff the Frenzied Berserker as much as possible until he could finally hit, and then he "won" the fight with -1000 HP (Deathless Frenzy).

So yeah, most broken character I've seen in my game.

 

[Gidien]

Could someone point me to the thread with the planet crushing Hulking Hurler build? I couldn't find it on the first 4 pages of the Rules forum... Thanks.

 

[MerakSpielman]

I have a broken PC in the campaign I'm running right now. He's a 5th level fighter, but he's twinked out as an archer. All core stuff. He does 1d8+6+1d6 damage with every hit, and usually Rapid Shots and hits twice. His attack bonuses are insane. Nobody else in the party can even come close to his damage potential per round. The best way to compensate seems to be, counter-intuitively, to use weaker monsters. Lots of them. Instead of fighting a couple CR 5 monsters, they'll fight 20 CR 1 monsters. Everybody can take them out in one hit, so they don't feel underpowered next to the archer. But I know this trick won't work forever. I'm just hoping he has had a rapid damage advancement at low levels and it will slow down a bit at the mid levels and let the others catch up a bit.