Munchkin benchmarks, anyone?

(modified by me)
Subject: Subtle indicators that your campaign needs to be audited.

Controlling the power distribution in a role playing game is one of the most challenging tasks undertaken by the GameMaster. At some point in virtually every GM's career, they have a campaign in which, despite their best efforts, character power somehow gets overblown, undertaxed, and generally in all ways out of hand. If you have ever been in such a situation and tried to reign things back in, you most likely found it to be a valiant but completely futile gesture. At this point most GMs would rather scrap the campaign altogether rather than tolerate characters running around who were only slightly less powerful than the GameMaster. In order to help you avoid this thoroughly unpleasant experience, listed below are some tell-tale warnings that the power balance in your fantasy game may be just a wee bit out of whack.

When the group's fighter-types add up their 'to hit' bonuses, does it take them five minutes with a hand calculator?
Does the party have extradimensional spaces dedicated solely to carrying their wardrobe?
Do any of the characters have a major religion based around them? (Self-idolization does not count).
If you add together the pluses of the party's four most powerful hand weapons, is the total more than twenty?
Has the group's magic-user put wheels on his spell book to make it more manageable?
Has the party been known to physically move large portions of the dungeon back to their stronghold so that they may be studied under controlled conditions?
Does the party employ a full-time clerk just to keep track of all their magic items ?
Does any member of the party collect lich skulls as a hobby ?
In their relationships with deities:
Do gods speak to your characters on a weekly or monthly basis?
When the gods speak to your characters, do they say 'Please' and 'Thank you'?
Do major deities ask your characters for special favors rather than the other way around?
Are any deities more afraid of your party than they are of it?
Are the party member's total hit points higher than their total IQ scores ?
Is the party's annual income larger than the tax base of a major city?
Does your fighter type have so many magic weapons that he needs a caddie to carry them around? ('Might I suggest the +5 Vorpal for this situation, sir ?' 'Thank you, Quiggly.')
When the group magician is asked for the location of his staff of power, does he say 'Which one?'
Did the party's last major battle:

If any of the above is true, then it might be that your campaign needs to be audited a bit. Or at least carted off to the loony bin.