The difference between optimization and effectiveness

to be fair that was a long time ago when the system was VERY new, and that guy dropped in every single combat i saw him participate in, I recommended that he quit charging every action… he didn’t seem to understand.

Edit
I should follow that up with:

There are some build that take depend on other people to make work and unless you have agreement with those other people, you are trying to play their characters for them non-consentually. Its like assuming that just because I’m a cleric, my only job is to heal you when you do dumb things.

It Sure sounds like the player who had a charging PC was still mentally locked into playing 3.5, where that tactic is quickly optimized. Arcanis has a way of discouraging things that don’t work well by frustrating the player. The way to open a conversation with that situation is:…

1) “Hum. You seam to be dropping in combat a lot. It that intended?”
2) “Well no.” (Most likely response)
3) “What is it that you are trying to accomplish by charging?”
4) “Well, my PC is a raving lunatic that rushes head long into battle to kill the enemy first.”
(Or what ever, the extract response here isn’t important, as long as you genuinely listen),
5) Well why don’t we sit down and find a way to reflect that within the rules, without triggering such a frustrating outcome? Now you said your PC is …{paraphrase answer from line one, in this case, say “So you said you want to play a berserker?”
(Conduct a Friendly PC audit with the player to help them achieve what is important to them)