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I agree, and I'll take it a step further. When a player intentionally builds a character significantly more or less powerful than the...

From the responses and way people talk it seems to me like the real problem is easily 90% personality and social issues, and like 10%...

Many years ago on these forums I remember a poster who said that they could never let their colleagues or managers know that they played...

I think it's a bigger issue with people having a hard time making friends or committing to social events. It's a real thing.

That's exactly it. I have always thought out optimizers as a social/table problem and not a game problem. It's a team game and we're...

Player buy in is the bggest factor, players need to accept theyre playing vunerable chatacters in tense situations. The DM provides the...

I think the most important rule, since its the most commonly broken, is this: Do not remove player agency. A lot of horror novels and...

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...

Is this discussion about optimization and optimizers or did the board's focus change to etymology? I'm down either way. I'm sure the...

I'm sorry, but of course it is. If I don't like optimizers because they mess up the game (vs my expectations and hopes for the game...

This thread will go well .... Let me start with a story. In American law schools, there's an archetype called a "gunner." It's ... not...

I ran numerous games of VtM 3rd edition during the late 90s and it was never about horror. Vampire was a game of politics and intrigue...

I think the issue with VtM 1E and 2E is that they were never primarily horror games. Particularly not 2E. It'd be a re-writing of...

You could write them down and paraphrase them when you GM. I do that. Matt Mercer does that, and he is 42.

Fortunately my players are all my age, too, so they also suffer from CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t).