On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, David Scheidt wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Johannes Trimmel
<[email protected]> wrote:
Keeping the optimized pcs from overshadowing the others, without bullying
them, is a very difficult thing to do. And you can't really prevent it at
character creation time, because "please make you character less efficient"
nor "you are not able to make a good character, let me fix it for you" are
attitudes very becoming for a GM.
I routinely place limits on character creation that are intended to
make characters less optimized. Limits on attributes; requirements
that characters put at least a certain number of points into skills;
requirements that characters have hobbies, or something that occupies
their time when they're not adventuring. What the limits are very
much depend on the game; a one-shot can get away with one-dimensional
characters, but an on-going campaign should have characters that are
actual human beings.
The problem i am talking about is not really about what portion of the cps
are spent for adventuring abilities but more how the adventuring portion
of the cps is spent. Some players just have a knack for coming up with
combinations of advantages skills spells etc, where they get more power
out of their adventuring cps, then others.
If it were not already a well known trick, optimising IQ characters with
3e Eidetic Memmory would be a good example.
And usually their choices of abilities fit well to the character
background as well. There is no bad roleplaying on part of the minmaxers,
they just get more bang for a cp then others.
Attribute caps and similiar don't help much for that, because if the
system gets more complex, you need more of a minmaxers ability to optimize
your character.
The best remedy in such a situation is, if minmaxers (or a gm, who is
good at minmaxing) act as consultants for non-minmaxers when creating
characters if everybody has enough time, and (if the consultant is not the
gm) if the characterconcepts are not secret.
One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle
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