Quote Originally Posted by Seerow View Post
So you got hit by poe's law. Sounds like a good time to apologize for the misunderstanding and move on, not insist the other person is overreacting to a joke that they obviously did not understand was a joke.
Seconded dude. Responding to a newbie question with 3 bits of op-fu that clearly haven't occurred to them,followed by 'didn't even need to try' followed by 'Feel Shame' comes across a bit arrogant, even after you say rather defensively that it was a joke.
To the OP: new players often get hold of one mechanic and think it's the be-all and end-all, and think that when they find a few things to stack to optimise that one thing they think they've beaten the game with an unbalanced character. In fact, they've made an unbalanced character in the sense that it has all its eggs in one basket, not in the sense that it's overpowered compared to other possibilities. My advice: your player wants to feel badass about having a 'can't touch this AC'. Cool. Let him feel badass about it, and by all means give him his fun having attacks just bounce off. Then have him come a non-terminal cropper with something he's weak against. Don't pound away at his will save, because at this stage there's little he can do about it, but make his character aware that he's not invulnerable and needs to do something about his weaknesses when he can.