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I've run plenty of games where optimization pretty much required breaking the rules... amongst them, Traveller (Classic), Starships &...

When you're talking being an optimizer, and when you're a DM about making 'homebrew far outside the rules', it sounds like you are the...

I mostly agree with you, with the caveat that between “minor optimisation” and “optimisation before concept” there is a large number of...

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

I've seen--and done--that sort of thing in Supers play, though point-buy Supers TRPGs are their own various fishkettles. I have a druid...

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...

Yeah. I'm kind of stunned that I seem to fall into the disruptive ego-driven jerk camp because I put my highest score in the class...

When you're throwing out the jerks I suggest starting with people who love sending people crying from the table; I find it hard to...

I'm going to stop here. Because at this point, you've agreed -- while you see a high overlap between optimizers and jerks, being an...

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...