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Thats also utter nonsense. As I said in that other thread, I consider myself a power gamer and optimizer. Never was I told I disrupt...

That is absolutely not true. You can just design harder fights. But designing more difficult fights is not more demanding for the DM, at...

As usual, this is the opposite of my experience; optimizers are at their best in hard games, and in fact, are often bred by same. The...

I disagree. Smart play has a much bigger impact than optimization (at least, in the RPGs I play) so whether or not the characters are...

My experience is that I end up adapting to the parties I'm running for; having an optimizer or three in the party isn't any different...

Though the dynamic can play out very differently outside the D&D sphere. In games like RuneQuest, you can have combats where its pretty...

Sure, but the distinction I was making was that in the style of game I like you don't know which fights are winnable, so you typically...

I was just thinking that assuming people share the spotlight, individual players get fewer rolls for the same amount of Fear going to...

I don't think it's really quite a "Vs" kind of balance on Hope and Fear, like they're kind of independent factors (despite the same roll...

I feel like I would rather run out too soon rather than hoard it, since every roll potentially gives me fear back. I wonder, though, if...

Yeah my biggest mistake in the first session was thinking I needed to like, be careful with Fear. The book kind of suggests you do with...

I've only run it for 4 players which I think is normal rather than large but the following points come to mind (you may already have...

Fortunately, you don’t need to take my word for it. This is what the book says: p. 150 Success with Fear Work together to describe the...

So, I do a lot of optimization for my day job, and a couple of concepts there I think are useful in the context of this discussion. The...

I actually feel that it works in both directions, win and loss, and that's actually important. Specifically, if your GM is one of...