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Reasons why Superman isn’t a good dad.

Until the Daggerheart playtest last year, the idea of a session zero never even existed to my group. People would chat on our FB...

Forget it, Jake, its Bloodtide.

There's something I don't understand here: if the table is "happy with that basic level of optimization" it means they aren't...

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

Exactly this. The argument that "all optimizers are jerks out to ruin everybody's fun" is symmetric to the argument that "roleplayers...

Why would an optimizer need an easy buddy DM? By my definition (and I don't think I am off the wall here) an optimizer builds...

Learning your character so your lack of knowledge of what you have chosen to play doesn't cause slowdown at the table as we all have to...

This feels way too far off the deep end in an otherwise polite conversation.

You're correct. The GM doesn't work for their own ego at all, their own fun. They work to make the game fun for everyone at the table...

But players out to break things and ruin everybody’s fun are not just optimizers; they’re jerks who use optimisation to ruin everybody’s...

It's a good question. What does "-5" look like, on the -5/+5 scale someone proposed a while back? Is it strictly having very low stats...

I think you mean Steve Long. He wrote the rules for 5th and 6th editions not 4th (although he did write some 4e supplements). The...

You see it a lot more in Streaming and Actual Play communities. For example, Ashley Johnson of Critical Role fame is a lovely person and...