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There's something I don't understand here: if the table is "happy with that basic level of optimization" it means they aren't...

Equally in my experience when strangers meet the default optimisation level at an open table is +3ish ("smart naive choices" such as...

Exactly this. The argument that "all optimizers are jerks out to ruin everybody's fun" is symmetric to the argument that "roleplayers...

Methinks you have a definition of "optimizer" that nobody else on the planet is using. Or understands.

Degenerate optimisation is a system matters problem, specifically it's either a user error by the group/GM in selecting the wrong system...

Optimization is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used for good or ill. My own feeling is that I usually go into a game with an idea...

Depending on how powerful one wants them to be, one could make them behave as specialisations. If you pick that level up, then you...

And not just because Eberron is my fav campaign world. Artificer is the main miss, I'd also write up a new ancestry for Shifters (I...

No, I have fun in many different kinds of games. From the angst-ridden Chronicles of Darkness, to a lot of Daggerheart recently, to...

I'm sorry to hear that.

For the last several years, I have been analyzing the successes and failures of each of my campaigns as they ended in a series of...

Honestly the dragonmarks are fictional permissions when applied to NPCs. I’ve found the “feat”/species style things that just give you a...

Learning your character so your lack of knowledge of what you have chosen to play doesn't cause slowdown at the table as we all have to...

This feels way too far off the deep end in an otherwise polite conversation.

You're correct. The GM doesn't work for their own ego at all, their own fun. They work to make the game fun for everyone at the table...