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I can't speak of AW specifically, but I'll outright say I do consider the two PbtA games I have to land in that category outside picking...

It can even be worse when the person doing better is avowedly not in the same niche, but is still outcompeting someone in that niche...

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

Forget it, Jake, its Bloodtide.

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

One of my first Audible books was a reading of The Brothers Karamazov. The reader…you know that wheezy sort of super snooty upper-class...

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.

I never got through Heat. Too naughty word long. “No good movie feels too long. No bad movie feels too short.”

While it can be a lot of work, it's part of the gig. Where I worked, the narrators didn't get paid to fix things, it was on them to get...

One of the audiobook readers did such a bad job with one of the Walter Mosely books that apparently Audible has now removed it from...

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...