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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...

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...

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

I'll reiterate my challenge from before: either show that anti-group behavior is inherent to optimization, or separate what jerk players...

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

For everyone talking about players who are optimizers who are also not upholding the community/social contract aspects. I challenge you...

Wow. Just...wow.

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%...

My personal experience is that for an awful lot of people see the latter as the former, but YMMV.

I've always loved the phrase "Optimizing your fun." Minimizing the things that are not fun, and maximizing the things that are!

I'm now at the "fighting the scheduling monster" level of setting an in-person group up! ...started to remember why I've just defaulted...

I have to second @Ruin Explorer here, this is conflating optimizers with munchkins. There's also a difference between theory-crafting...

That's Mercer in all his campaigns. The main campaigns even have magic shops where they can get personalised magical items.

My game of Daggerheart this week that included a full session zero. The advance notes (all mental) We've got the campaign frame (5...