Quote Originally Posted by johnbragg View Post
True. But the point is, with a high-level Tier 1 in the party, do you need any other players?

Or is the game optimization chess with the DM? (Which is a perfectly fine game and not Badwrongfun if that's what you like.)

I'm just wondering what gameplay is like with high system-mastery players running Tier 1 characters in upper-level games.
Usually I focus on making enemies fit to the players (I helped pretty much all my players save three make T1 characters, and all but one have run T1 characters) but also focus on RP. Most of the time it's just a fun thought experiment and combat is secondary to halfway decent RP.