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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8456413" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Easiest, quickest, and best way to stop &quot;power gaming&quot; in D&amp;D? Do what I've done on occasion (I think it was about 1985'ish when I first did this)...DM: &quot;Stats? Just pick 'em. Whatever you feel fits your character concept, just don't go all Monty-Haul on me. Use your judgement&quot;.POOF! I had new PC's introduced with stats like &quot;18, 15, 12, 10, 9, 7&quot;, or &quot;14, 17, 12, 9, 10, 10&quot;, or even &quot;13, 11, 11, 10, 9, 7&quot;. It was the opposite of &quot;18, 18, 18, 15, 15, 11&quot;. Why? Nobody wanted to look like a &quot;Munchkin&quot; (re: &quot;power gaming loser with no actual gaming chops&quot;). It's like challenging a friend to a game of Golf and the friend saying &quot;Yeah, you can take a handicap of 10 if you want&quot;. No friend in their right mind would agree to that unless they KNOW they really suck. If they did take it, they are admitting that they &quot;suck&quot;, and who likes doing that? Especially in a group with multiple friends and/or strangers?Also, Race/Class/Whatever bonuses to stats are then irrelevant; you are choosing what you want. Want that Halfling with a 20 STR? Ok. Write it down. Want the Goliath whelp with a STR of 5? Ok. Write it down.Of course, this did have one extra bonus... it REALLY cheesed off the one actual &quot;power gamer&quot; in the group! Oh man was he upset! He was mad because he couldn't claim &quot;Oh, I totally rolled those stats and HP's and everything...not my fault the dice were nice to me!&quot;...so it was blatantly obvious he couldn't hack it as a &quot;normal&quot; player. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8456413, member: 45197"] Hiya! Easiest, quickest, and best way to stop "power gaming" in D&D? Do what I've done on occasion (I think it was about 1985'ish when I first did this)... DM: "Stats? Just pick 'em. Whatever you feel fits your character concept, just don't go all Monty-Haul on me. Use your judgement". POOF! I had new PC's introduced with stats like "18, 15, 12, 10, 9, 7", or "14, 17, 12, 9, 10, 10", or even "13, 11, 11, 10, 9, 7". It was the opposite of "18, 18, 18, 15, 15, 11". Why? Nobody wanted to look like a "Munchkin" (re: "power gaming loser with no actual gaming chops"). It's like challenging a friend to a game of Golf and the friend saying "Yeah, you can take a handicap of 10 if you want". No friend in their right mind would agree to that unless they KNOW they really suck. If they did take it, they are admitting that they "suck", and who likes doing that? Especially in a group with multiple friends and/or strangers? Also, Race/Class/Whatever bonuses to stats are then irrelevant; you are choosing what you want. Want that Halfling with a 20 STR? Ok. Write it down. Want the Goliath whelp with a STR of 5? Ok. Write it down. Of course, this did have one extra bonus... it REALLY cheesed off the one actual "power gamer" in the group! Oh man was he upset! He was mad because he couldn't claim "Oh, I totally rolled those stats and HP's and everything...not my fault the dice were nice to me!"...so it was blatantly obvious he couldn't hack it as a "normal" player. ;) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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