I was the tankiest of tanks and I always got into arguements with our arcane guy for exploding me all the time, he just said "you can take it lol" even though half my deaths were down to him.

I was once That Guy. It was my first Wizard I'd ever rolled, and I specialized in wrecking ass with Burning Hands (this is 4E, where Burning Hands is actually pretty damn strong), so I got a little nuts, and hit the warforged Slayer who was our impromptu tank because he was so beefy, with just about every Burning Hands, every fight.

He got upset.

So, being a pal, I re-rolled as an actual tank, the Knight, and we ruled the frontlines of every combat like total bros. The enemies couldn't escape my aura of aggro without me kicking the shit out of them with attacks of opportunity, so he just flanked them and wailed away with a greatclub.

When you have overpowered characters, you should simply change the campaign to play to their weaknesses, or scale combat to match. A character with exceptional focus on strength is not going to do well if they have to use bluff or seduce checks or whatever, and their strength can be offset by making encounters harder.

The GM could have easily avoided all of this nonsense by simply saying "Okay, this is overpowered, so I'm going to make a key bit of all their adventures convincing people to work with them and lying their way out of bad situations." or by saying "If you're going to be that powerful, then your BBEG is going to a lich or something who reanimates entire hordes of undead." and the game becomes about rebuilding the shattered world or something from the clutches of necromancy, not just finding bullshit ways to counter one character you don't like.

I know you're not siding with the GM, but the truth is that in a game as open ended as most tabletop RPGs, someone being "overpowered" is really just absurd and untrue. There is always a way to make the game challenging and fun without using GM bullshit.

It mentioned that the DM "houseruled" something, so what I got from it was that he'd said "no, fuck it characters can level up in combat" earlier in order to try and kill one of the players.

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