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That's not my experience at all. Someone picking up the core book and giving it a good-faith reading and figuring out that it's a good...

In my experience that's exactly what happens. The optimizer gets it in their head that the atrocious and mangled reading of the rules...

You are your own worst enemy. Enjoy deciding that everyone is out to get you, I guess.

This is actually the first time that I've spent a large amount of time watching the Critical Role team do their thing (never really had...

Oop, fixed.

Not necessarily, no. But it’s quite often the result. And that result is known to be a thing. And it’s not seen by many optimizers as a...

Thanks. The link’s borked.

Yeah, the social SC in the core book being one of the absolutely worst examples certainly didn't help. I do like the idea of Social...

Flags are "game mechanics which explicit aspects of a character designed for players to tell the GM what kind of stories and conflicts...

Meanwhile if you go by actual play in vaguely skilled hands 4e had in many ways the strongest non-combat game of any D&D edition unless...

Incredible Creatures an Adversary and Environment book for Daggerheart on Kickstarter...

I’m not familiar with that. What do you mean by flags, beliefs, and instincts here?

I saw this on the Daggerheart subreddit and think it's solid advice.

CharOp is spotlight hogging in the sense of utterly overshadowing the rest of the group while you have the spotlight. Yes, it...

That implies Character optimization and spotlight hogging are the same thing, which I don't agree with. In any event, theory crafting...