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<blockquote data-quote="Chiaroscuro23" data-source="post: 3103552" data-attributes="member: 15371"><p>Knowlingly innocent? I'm just trying isolate if advising others on optimization might be considered bad separately from whether advice can be given in a bad way. As noted, some folks think rules lawyering is always rude, even if the lawyer is clearly correct on both spirit and letter of the rules. Others disagree, and welcome rules questions when they are DMing. I don't think it's more outlandish to say that optimization advice is any less capable of being frowned upon than rules lawyering. And it's more likely to be frowned upon than optimizing one's own character, sometimes called "munchkin" behavior.</p><p></p><p>Since I recently refrained from offering optimization advice figuring it was probably inappropriate,* it occurred to me that I was unsure how the greater community might fell about the issue. Polls on ENworld aren't science or anything, but they can generate good discussion.</p><p></p><p>* -- I was specifically dealing with a new player who needed help levelling. Inexplicably, she's playing a wizard, and she doesn't appear to understand the need for preparing spells ahead of time, nor which spells would be effective. She took her second level in fighter on the GM's advice, because she "needs more hit points", and needed help reading the chart to know what to change on her sheet. I'm not looking forward to her levelling in wizard again, and me needing to explain multiclassing, caster level and all that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chiaroscuro23, post: 3103552, member: 15371"] Knowlingly innocent? I'm just trying isolate if advising others on optimization might be considered bad separately from whether advice can be given in a bad way. As noted, some folks think rules lawyering is always rude, even if the lawyer is clearly correct on both spirit and letter of the rules. Others disagree, and welcome rules questions when they are DMing. I don't think it's more outlandish to say that optimization advice is any less capable of being frowned upon than rules lawyering. And it's more likely to be frowned upon than optimizing one's own character, sometimes called "munchkin" behavior. Since I recently refrained from offering optimization advice figuring it was probably inappropriate,* it occurred to me that I was unsure how the greater community might fell about the issue. Polls on ENworld aren't science or anything, but they can generate good discussion. * -- I was specifically dealing with a new player who needed help levelling. Inexplicably, she's playing a wizard, and she doesn't appear to understand the need for preparing spells ahead of time, nor which spells would be effective. She took her second level in fighter on the GM's advice, because she "needs more hit points", and needed help reading the chart to know what to change on her sheet. I'm not looking forward to her levelling in wizard again, and me needing to explain multiclassing, caster level and all that. [/QUOTE]
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