Re: Is Move-Through Abusive
Wow, this is how you tell when you have been blessed with some really good players in your campaign. It is when they are looking out for you and your campaign as well.
I think a large part of wether or not it is abusive is if the player created the character with the intention to be abusive. Anyone who has witnessed this player in action would know that they had no idea of just how powerful that character is, nor would they ever create a character to be abusive.
The GM (me) made a mistake, not the first time, in not reading the new rules accompanying move through and leaping and didn't realize how much it has improved since earlier editions. Plus there was no way that this sweet lady would make a character that can devastate anything I am going to throw at her. When I first found out the hard way of what she was capable of with a leaping move through (22d6), my thoughts were that anything doing that amount of damage should have a mushroom cloud attached to it.
One of the first people she wanted to do that against was a mentalist, a twelve year old little girl, sitting in a chair at the time. She could easily hit with the move through but luckily thought to just leap over and hit with 10d6 of damage (that still came very close to killing this poor girl. The girl managed to survive but wasn't able to take a second hit at that level.
One thing that has helped is that the brick in question has code vs killing and has already learned the hard way of just how powerful she is. She also found out the hard way what 22d6 feels like when she fought the millipede.
Now if we can just get it across to her that 12d6 alone is pretty ugly, we are all set. She is presently working on some kind of record for most opponents that need intensive care after being in a fight with her.