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Fictional names/words ... yeah, they might not be able to find a good source. Real-world names and words, though, there are good sources...

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...

Powergaming (optimizers, munchkins, ect.) is a recognized playstyle and there's nothing wrong with it. The players in a group aren't...

“We weren’t kidding about enshittification.”

I was not saying break them and send them running. I am saying to mix things up. In my experience, If players know that they can't...

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...

Oh man, once again I'm doing it wrong. I spend a lot of time talking about aging. Started a whole thread on the topic. Uh...am I the...

I was presuming this was someone competent--knowing how to play their character, maybe knowing the rules more broadly, just choosing not...

In about 25 years of roleplaying I have never seen anyone try to play anything in the +5 Pun-Pun range unless that's the point. Well...

This is thoughtful, let me try to respond in kind. Let me talk about poker for a second. A big facet of poker is probability. But...

I know the question wasn’t for me, but from what I’ve seen, nobody is asked to optimize more. Their friends will give them advice...

op·ti·mize /ˈäptəˌmīz/ verb verb: optimize; 3rd person present: optimizes; past tense: optimized; past participle: optimized; gerund or...

Serious question: Have you ever seen a player who was the lone non-optimizer at the table, and how did they react to being asked to...

Absolutely. The only spot on the spectrum that seems inherently problematic is the +5 Pun-Pun range. Unless that’s the point of a given...

I used to push back hard against players who made choices purely for numerical advantage, especially when those choices ignored any...