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Until the Daggerheart playtest last year, the idea of a session zero never even existed to my group. People would chat on our FB...

The assassin is much more different from the rogue than is being suggested because of the domains, although Nightwalker makes a decent...

But if they don't even match reality it's hard to have a discussion

Niche protection comes up a lot in those kind of comparisons, too. Many groups (but not all) are okay when the combat specialist does...

This comes across as incredibly belittling and insulting to rules heavy systems and the imaginations of people who enjoy them, so I am...

I'm simply going to laugh at the idea that Apocalypse world has few meaningful choices during character generation. And then try to work...

Session Zero is a surprisingly new thing in the history of RPGs, in part because fighting over or waiting for the rulebook leads to a...

If you can "break" the game by making good decisions instead of bad ones, the game is bad, and you should play something else. It...

Also, I have never experienced a session 0 where players asked around to establish, "Hey, how much are we optimizing here?" My groups...

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...