...Yeah I know, I know what you're thinking about me and you might be right.
The truth is, I have Borderline Personality Disorder, I'm a Game Master, I love Game Mastering in general and I spent the whole month of July spending some of my money on PF and learning to play what I consider the most fun but hard to learn RPG I've ever laid my hands on.
I play mostly using roll20 since my friends and I are quite busy with college and to be honest, I'm a balance-loving, rules-first GM, and they have known this for the 5 years I've been Game Mastering to them.
However I have always indirect clashes with a friend that loves to be the Mary Sue of the group, and he's too much of a good guy with me to just kick him out of the game table, however wit ha disorder like mine sometimes I can't really keep out of mind I hate him when playing, and the guys like him so i haven't been able to keep him out of my games.
So, we were going to start Kingmaker, and he asked me to have a Dragon Disciple later on. I said yes, because I didn't noticed how strong actually the class becomes once it gets Form of the Dragon, and he would over shadow my best friend's Trapper Ranger and maybe the PC of the girl we play with... So even tho I allowed it, I hated how he bragged every day he would become "over powered", thus tu pester him I asked the girl to become a summoner and design her Eidolon in the most broken way possible.
After a week of daily play, I noticed the combination would make them a two-PC party, but I couldn't back down, since either of them wanted and I was being too nice just to cover I wanted to punch them in the face for my mistake.
So, I talked to my Best friend, I exploded, and he told me I should stay away from GMing for the rest of the year since I'm gonna start doing Professional Practices this semester, which will keep me away from 7am to 9pm every day save weekends, and he fears I could get a breakdown.
I feel kinda sad because well, I spent time and money, a lot, to get the current Kingmaker as it is, and the guys got really hyped about it, made a cake, they did awesome character artworks, etc. But they do fear I'm too unstable to keep on playing.
So I just was thinking I should go and play with myself.
I thought to get a group online, but actually my english sucks and most of people on groups are older than me which is sorta intimidating.
Sorry for the long story :/
You shouldn't encourage people to try to play broken characters, even if someone else is already doing it.
If his bragging is what is really bothering you, you could just talk to him away from the table and let him know that you don't really appreciate it and that you'd rather he toned it down a little.
Also, make sure everyone knows that Pathfinder is cooperative and they shouldn't by trying to specifically outdo each other (though I don't know Kingmaker, so if that IS what Kingmaker is about, I'd discourage you from running it) and should just try to have fun.
Having one person insanely optimized to the detriment of the group is a huge topic of discussion and there are tons of threads about it, so you could try looking through some of those.
That said, if the other players' characters are built to (or coincidentally happen to) compliment the Dragon Disciple through support, then the party could work out just fine, as a Dragon Disciple really is made to play the role of a flying frontline massacre (however, a Summoner is good at that role, too, so having both may wind up with some toes getting stepped on; a Ranger, on the other hand, can be built a ludicrous number of different ways and could nicely compliment a DD if built as such).
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Hey don't feel bad I game by myself all the time, make my own parties and run them through an adventure. I then usually use what happens to write stories about the characters. And then when you do see an opening for a game you have 4-5 well tested character ideas to plug in for the party.
That's funny, I was thinking about all the Iconics at first level vs a horde of zombies. 100, maybe 200 with some variety of other low level undead. How would you handle something like that by yourself?
Is there a map that can handle that? Does anyone know of a link to such a map? With buildings and other obstacles. You know stuff to change up the terrain, make it tactical.
Mass combat rules won't work. More like chess pieces vs swarm variants of zombies. Mobs of 3 or 5 or 15 that would require teamwork.