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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5647421" data-attributes="member: 1165"><p>Leave out RP for the moment. That's nothing to do with stats.</p><p></p><p>A DM's job is hard. Balancing is hard. The classes are mostly balanced, but not completely. Player skill is not balanced with each other, neither tactical nor build. (In my own campaign, all the players use the Character Builder, which I hate as DM because it makes it nearly impossible to keep out material. I'm not even talking about unbalanced material, but unfamiliar material. You don't need to buy the book; the powers are there already, so the old DM tactic of not using book they don't have doesn't really work.)</p><p></p><p>So it sounds like your PC is not balanced with the other characters. It isn't fair to get your character nerfed, but you need to see it from the DM's point of view - if you're stronger than the other PCs, then the campaign has a balance issue.</p><p></p><p>I would suggest helping the other players optimize, and tell the DM to use more vicious monsters/tactics.</p><p></p><p>TLDR: What Online DM said.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 5647421, member: 1165"] Leave out RP for the moment. That's nothing to do with stats. A DM's job is hard. Balancing is hard. The classes are mostly balanced, but not completely. Player skill is not balanced with each other, neither tactical nor build. (In my own campaign, all the players use the Character Builder, which I hate as DM because it makes it nearly impossible to keep out material. I'm not even talking about unbalanced material, but unfamiliar material. You don't need to buy the book; the powers are there already, so the old DM tactic of not using book they don't have doesn't really work.) So it sounds like your PC is not balanced with the other characters. It isn't fair to get your character nerfed, but you need to see it from the DM's point of view - if you're stronger than the other PCs, then the campaign has a balance issue. I would suggest helping the other players optimize, and tell the DM to use more vicious monsters/tactics. TLDR: What Online DM said. [/QUOTE]
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