| SeekingKnight |
Greetings all. New poster here and love all I have seen so far. Now I got a small problem. I game with a group of friends on friday nights. There are six of us then the DM. We are nearing the end of the Sunless Citidal modual.
So far things have been ok. There are times I have to leave early and I miss out on some fights but that is not the issue. See I am playing an optimized human crusader. I had asked the WotC Char Op board for help and they helped out a whole lot. Thin is when I used any of my abilities they seem lackluster to what everyone else does. I used strikes and been in stance yet doing more by just attacking.
I know everyone has bad luck with die rolls so it is not so much that. Just seems I optimized my character enough that it may be overkill. To finish the party's makeup we have an elf sorcerer who is a pyro (which means one fireball is availible he is taking it) with combat casting feat, halfling rogue with lightning reflexes feat, half elf cleric with extra turning feat, half elf bard with with one the dual skill boosting feats (I think persuasion), and an orecutter dwarf barbarian (A +4 LA race from races of faerun).
So my question, after the wall of text, is can optimizing a character be more of a hinderance then just making a character based on how you role play?
Thank you.
P.S. I know about the Stormwind Fallacy and I am not debating it. Role playing vs crunch is not the problem. It is more of is the extra cruch of being optimized more trouble then any old way of making a character?