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Hello all

In my friends campaign I am playing a disarming/trip fighter. Now things are going kind of badly (I died twice at level 1 than died again at level 3) but through it all I still managed to assist my party by keeping enemies at bay with my disarming and tripping.

The problem is that the DM has understandably got tired of my tripping attempts and has told me that he is going to modify the rules as it's "overpowered". Now although I am fine with recreating my character as something else I still think its a bit unfair as from my searches of the interwebs it seems like improved trip is quite commonly seen as overpowered yet most replies to the forum posts have concensus that it is fine and does not need changing.

So I am wondering what I can do as he is saying that the guy that wrote the rulebook commented that the rule should be nerfed but I am as yet to find evidence of that from my searches.
My arguments are

• I need to succeed in three seperate rolls to do my improved trip
• I have invested 5 feats into it to make it as effective as it is
• I have died three times so clearly its not that overpowered
• I need to wield special weapons to use it efficiently
• I am not boring in combat (he said it was but I think it's better than "I hit them")
• I assist the weaker party member with my crowd control
• The power attack paladin does more damage and has more influence than me in the fights
• Our sorcerer spams grease yet that isn't being nerfed
• Last of all against a lot of enemies it becomes useless (flying or 4 legs+)

It just seems kind of annoying that I am loosing out because I chose to specialise in something.

Also on a seperate note I was also told that being intimidated by someone meant that I am subserviant to them.
Basically we captured a werewolf and handed her over but the guards wanted to behead her. I decided that was a bit harsh and tried to prevent it so the paladin intimidated me into handing her over.
The roll succeeded but I still refused to hand her over as intimidation just makes me friendly to the paladin and does not mean that I am now dominated to do as he says. Yet I still got told that I have to compromise with him since he intimidated me.

I still refused but got a bit of an argument because of it.

What is all your takes on this. Should I just recreate my fighter or fight me ground? Should intimidate, diplomacy and bluff be used to control other characters?

Play a druid.  Your DM will be begging for the days of you tripping things.