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

When you're throwing out the jerks I suggest starting with people who love sending people crying from the table; I find it hard to...

You can't win an RPG. But you can lose. As I have said before if you are taking seriously being in a life or death situation with a...

Good on you to know what didn't interest you. Ahh. This is open acknowledgement of the irregular verb. You only use optimizer...

In about 25 years of roleplaying I have never seen anyone try to play anything in the +5 Pun-Pun range unless that's the point. Well...

This is thoughtful, let me try to respond in kind. Let me talk about poker for a second. A big facet of poker is probability. But...

I know the question wasn’t for me, but from what I’ve seen, nobody is asked to optimize more. Their friends will give them advice...

I used to push back hard against players who made choices purely for numerical advantage, especially when those choices ignored any...

I think it's worth considering that if everyone else at the table is sitting around -2 on this axis (using your numbers) then someone...

I think a step back from the word itself, quibbling over definitions, and looking at the behavior might help people actually talk to...

So a wizard putting their highest ability score into INT, and later picking up feats that help their spellcasting or INT, are loopholes...

Wow. Just...wow.

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

It appears that I had my copy show up late yesterday- I just noticed the box on the porch this morning on my way to work and grabbed it...