| Farastu |
I'm going to be going over tweaking a player's synthesist summoner character some.
Some background on other players and their characters: they don't tend to have fun with overly optimized characters, they like characters that have vulnerabilities, and aren't total combat monsters, they have told me this. They don't like it that one player's character is totally a combat monster and was built extremely well-optimized. They don't like the idea that I could build combat situations to mainly target the well-optimized character while going out of my way to not obliterate them at the same time (and I am on the same page with them when it comes to this), and I'd like to avoid things that get silly like having dismissal show up too frequently.
Now granted this is a low combat game (they usually get into one or maybe two combats a game, and the rest is all roleplaying) that certainly doesn't make it a non-issue.
Beyond this, what else should I be on the look for with this character when helping the player tweak it? Any other advice for the situation?
Now inc case it seems like other wise I really do like this player, they are my friend and I'm not looking to punish them, I just want to fix the mechanical issues at hand.
Also, from now on to avoid (or at least make it less likely) these instances in the future I've decided to always playtest characters before approving them. I definitely admit that not doing something like this to help show any severe balance issues before was my bad, that is for sure.