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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5905601" data-attributes="member: 21169">Where the line is, I'm not sure, but I can give an example of an overpowered character in 3.5 D&D.We were a three player 9th level party - wizard (me), cleric and multiclassed rogue/fighter/barbarian half-demon. A particular monster from MM3, a ragewalker, CR14, had given us a lot of trouble, beating us in two encounters, so I decided to make sure of it in our third meeting.Ragewalkers possess many nasty abilities. Any being within 10 feet must make a DC28 will save or fly into a berserk rage, unable to cast spells or distinguish friend from foe. All projectiles such as arrows and sling stones are repelled, striking the attacker. They also have spell resistance 26.I learned the fly spell, something I'd previously eschewed as I felt it was too powerful, to avoid the berserker effect. The cleric buffed us with protection from energy (to avoid its fire magic), and after that I just killed the ragewalker on my own using web, Evard's black tentacles, cloudkill and the orb spells from Complete Arcane. All of these are conjurations, so avoid spell resistance. The other party members would probably just have been a hindrance as they would've been overcome by the berserker rage and may have attacked one another.That, to me, is too much power. A 9th level wizard shouldn't be able to basically solo a CR14 monster. Certainly not one with spell resistance 26.</blockquote>