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It can be a pain if you have a mixture of optimizer and non-optimizer players at the table.

It's nice to see the courts speed running to that Cyperpunk corp-o owned dystopia that I've always read about.

Thank god. Good sense prevails. That it was a transformative use was blatantly obvious to me (and to anyone else who didn't have a...

Mod note: You speak about "good sense", but then proceed to insult everyone who doesn't agree with you. It is unnecessary, and uncalled...

Fortunately Mystara has some great fan made stuff curated on the net, theres lots available.

Some of it by me!

As others have said, it can also be problematic when trying to challenge the party properly. Using too much, challenging the optimized...

From the Eberron Campaign Setting (3e)

Optimisation isn't the problem. We all do that. It's over-optimisation when no one else at the table plays that way. I had this problem...

D&D is a game that can be lost, so... to the victory minded, staying on the non-losing side is a goal of play. I tend to be a "Use the...

This comes close to my feelings. Winning and losing in an RPG are mostly down to the mission at hand, but success or failure are usually...

This makes me want to 3D print some compensatory prizes to hand to people who die in my Shadowdark game....

Years ago I was DMing for two young nephews, and when one of them (9 y.o. at the time) was disappointed about failing a climbing check...

By that logic, you don't lose in your bowling league, because you get to play next week no matter what happens this week. "So long as...

You almost got there. You win, as a player, by having your character achieve their goal/s--this can be kinda fractal, goals can be...