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Most people playing AD&D used some (often unique in their area) subset of the gygaxian spew of rules text...

Only partially true, in 1e... all advanced careers require you to get the skills of the entry path, and you could only pick new starting...

In meaningful ways they are almost the worst at demonstrating their own game. For the past ten years Critical Role have been probably...

because it's extremely common for the +4-+5 level and -4 to -5 level to be preachy as hell about the -2 to +2 level players "not...

it made up for it with PCs having stupidly high atts.

it's worth noting that Discord demands a modest bandwidth, but gets picky about latency (lag), too. Fiber barely lowers latency; it just...

Sometimes, the potatoes are due to poverty... but yeah.

Folks who cling to potatoes with a death grip because they don’t want to learn a new machine or ever change are a good example.

They (and possibly you) don't understand the 1e/2e carreers... Starting Career isn't what the PC does now, it's what they were doing...

Had a Dwarf player in 1e, his Slayer hit T8... noting that fire damage was 1d4, and not thinking about open ending, lit himself on fire...

Methinks you have a definition of "optimizer" that nobody else on the planet is using. Or understands.

The moment it's a minority of 1 trying to dictate their preferences over those of the majority of the group, or even the whole, It's...

When you're talking being an optimizer, and when you're a DM about making 'homebrew far outside the rules', it sounds like you are the...

I've run plenty of games where optimization pretty much required breaking the rules... amongst them, Traveller (Classic), Starships &...

3:16 Brute Squad Orkworld (John Wick) Sorcerer (Ron Edwards) CORPS + Apocalypse CORPS + Down In Flames – 13 adventures where...