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It comes from games from the 00s and earlier which were truly terribly balanced and which you could accidentally become overwhelmingly...

He does seem like a worst-case scenario in many ways, yes. Setting out to optimize hard as GM, then complaining when your players do, is...

I will say, the one thing I don't get and probably never will is this idea that you shouldn't/can't have optimizers and non-optimizers...

Well, its based on the fact that even people who aren't oriented toward optimization want to feel like they're contributing. If some...

The person you are replying to is a self-confessed optimizer. He has also in this thread admitted to optimizing using homebrew (from the...

In my experience some people are jerks, but most people want to follow the social rules. An actively bad game is one in which you are...

I did a couple sample encounters with my wife, just to test before I ran on the podcast. She really enjoyed the system. Even at 1st...

I think the last sentence is the important thing, though there is a large middle space between your two options, and there's nothing...

I still pop in, but I am not starting threads (or commenting much). I ran a one-shot of Daggerheart for another group of friends -...

Agreed. This is what I was trying to get at earlier in terms of this being a game design/game choice problem. It is not an unavoidable...

If optimizing wasn't encouraged behavior by default the game shouldn't make optimizing good. Case in point: Swords & Wizardry Complete...

Thats also utter nonsense. As I said in that other thread, I consider myself a power gamer and optimizer. Never was I told I disrupt...

That is fair, but thats a general problem. Also if you just have "normal" players and bad ones at the table, or "normal" and optimizers...

Yes! This is exactly what I was going for. Fear reduces guilt about being "fair" so you can instigate shenanigans, and the players are...

You do realise you just reversed the statement you were replying to. That they talked about optimizers trying to make people feel bad...