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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...

But you didn't state that. I can only go with what you've actually been explicit about here. The single most common reason someone has a...

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

There are two things I'd like to add to this I don't mind the players not here to win but here to have a good time with their friends -...

It depends. Is the non-optimiser playing within the limits of their character and are they happy to do so? And how much practical danger...

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%...