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In principle, I agree there shouldn't be a cap on how effective a legal PC can be. In practice, a large enough discrepancy can be a...

Had a great time with my first in person Daggerheart game. I had 5 PCs covering the usual suspects, capability wise. The story had the...

The more Daggerheart games I'm running, the more I'm coming to realize that Fear is a psychological currency to facilitate making crap...

It's more that you could have always set the scene up ahead of time, properly telegraphing everything, right down to the adversaries...

I mean kinda, specifically from a traditional standpoint. But from the perspective of come from a lot of non-D&D style games, the Fear...

There are a couple of clips of Gary talking about the game, including about winning and losing, in this recent short BBC piece. Closing...

It's a nice little piece.

And I think there's a good argument that D&D 5e was kinda specifically not to be optimized. I mean, there are some choices that will end...

It comes from games from the 00s and earlier which were truly terribly balanced and which you could accidentally become overwhelmingly...

He does seem like a worst-case scenario in many ways, yes. Setting out to optimize hard as GM, then complaining when your players do, is...

Well, its based on the fact that even people who aren't oriented toward optimization want to feel like they're contributing. If some...

Yeah. Talking about your own experiences/psychology is almost certainly fine, though probably not generalizable (and you should keep...

I finally had to resort to the Ignore button to prevent myself from incurring the Wrath of Red Text, so I'm not going to directly...

The PF2e games I've played in says you're wrong. And this is, at best, a gross overgeneralization. There are plenty of optimizers who...