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Fallacious Follies: Oberoni, Stormwind, and Fallacies OH MY!
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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9177587" data-attributes="member: 7026617"><p>Its fine to do so. My only argument ever was that the more random elements there are in character generation and/or advancement, the less room for optimization there is, because you just can't control the result you'll end up with. And the choices you have with Trav characters are very limited.</p><p></p><p>Remember, this was in response to Pemerton using it as an example because it was less combat oriented (which I think is actually not as clear as he does, given the two commonest campaign styles with it back in the day were either merchants or mercenaries), and my noting that it wouldn't have mattered how combat centric it was because you had such limited control.</p><p></p><p>It was essentially an argument that to optimize things you have to control things.</p><p></p><p>(I also thought it showed how much people assume that only combat is going to have enough mechanical teeth that you can't optimize within them, but that's kind of a side issue).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 9177587, member: 7026617"] Its fine to do so. My only argument ever was that the more random elements there are in character generation and/or advancement, the less room for optimization there is, because you just can't control the result you'll end up with. And the choices you have with Trav characters are very limited. Remember, this was in response to Pemerton using it as an example because it was less combat oriented (which I think is actually not as clear as he does, given the two commonest campaign styles with it back in the day were either merchants or mercenaries), and my noting that it wouldn't have mattered how combat centric it was because you had such limited control. It was essentially an argument that to optimize things you have to control things. (I also thought it showed how much people assume that only combat is going to have enough mechanical teeth that you can't optimize within them, but that's kind of a side issue). [/QUOTE]
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