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Originally Posted by Kalzazz

Well, one persons 'overpowered' is also likely another persons 'underpowered', GURPS ranged combat can be quite brutal, and in certain other games it is very possible to have a starting character that can kill two orks in a single round with a longbow

So someone might be thinking 'Oh dear! He is killing an ork a round! Overpowered!' while another is thinking 'Oh dear! Only an ork a round! Underpowered!'

I actually ran into this recently in a game I was DMing. The fairly high point value elven swordsman took 5 combat rounds to kill 4 ork goons. I was distressed. 5 combat rounds!? And he was even wounded? How could this be?

I actually was so distressed by it I had him run into another 4 ork goons and . . . again he took 5 combat rounds to kill them, and he got hurt

I was most distressed

After the game I brought it up with the player 'I think we need to look at your character and ponder what went awry, I can't believe it took 5 rounds for you to drop 4 orks, not even an ork a round'

Player 'No, its cool. It was almost a ork a round, and sides, he isn't supposed to be a DPS king, that went about right I think'

I tend to define it as "When a character is doing so much that nobody is having fun".