Need help fighting the dreaded MinMaxer.

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Jasonft

To start, I think it is broken as heck... but it looks legal.

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Would I ever allow it in my game if I was GM? Heck no. But I need solid rules to stand on when arguing with this person as a fellow player.

Help?

Cosmic is a modifier that's very much only with the permission of the GM. That's a LOT of cosmic flying around there. Has the GM seen this? Have they approved it? Are they OK with it?

If they have, and they did, and they are... I'm not sure you should bother arguing with the player. You'd be fighting both of them.


EDIT: If this isn't a character for an actual game, but just something he's screwing around with for his own entertainment, don't stress yourself over it. If he's passed it to you for a review for rules legality, OK, that's a useful commentary... But.

When I'm making my own characters for no game in particular just to entertain myself, I'm my own GM and I get the last call on how I can jamn things together, how many points I get to do that with, any restrictions on character creation, etc etc. It doesn't matter how many Cosmics I put on a power, or frankly how many incredibly antisocial disadvantages end up on my character, otherwise making them totally disfunctional in any group play setting. They're not a "real" character that actually has to see play, work in a group, and not **** off my GM. It's like writing fanfic for myself, only myself, never to be shared - my plot lines might be utter crap and the protagonist might be a total author-insertion character, but I'm the only audience so if I like it, I've achieved 100% market success.

So he might be doing something totally cheesy, but I wouldn't stress over it because it's very "not real". Offer friendly critique, but don't obsess over whether he's going to try this in a "real" game. This isn't real.