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But players out to break things and ruin everybody’s fun are not just optimizers; they’re jerks who use optimisation to ruin everybody’s...

Alas no :( It's just over a month since the first book came out and they can't keep it in stock.

See, "knowing your character" doesn't seem like "optimizing" to me. I mean, maybe "use your character better, tactically" is close, or...

That seems like a matter of personality or behavior, and not strictly about optimizing. I mean, it's at least as much a failure to fit...

You...you...monster!

I've been known to refer to Fear as my "shoulder demon"; I get far more Fear than I'd consider it fair to make things up in a normal D&D...

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...