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I get what you're saying but ultimately, if the game only works when people don't think about it too much, then the game doesn't really...

How is discrepancy in optimization a problem, outside of jerk behavior? There's the en passant steamrollering of someone else's...

Yeah, for sure. I vaguely remember an old 3e thread (not here) about how a player who just naively wanted to play a shapeshifting and...

We probably have different opinions on this--which is fine--but my take on 5e is the problems you're talking about are probably more a...

In principle, I agree there shouldn't be a cap on how effective a legal PC can be. In practice, a large enough discrepancy can be a...

Hey, we agree on something. Woot. I did a thread a few years back about fun and preferences. This thread wasn’t about that topic...

And I think there's a good argument that D&D 5e was kinda specifically not to be optimized. I mean, there are some choices that will end...

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...

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

Yeah. Talking about your own experiences/psychology is almost certainly fine, though probably not generalizable (and you should keep...

I finally had to resort to the Ignore button to prevent myself from incurring the Wrath of Red Text, so I'm not going to directly...

My take--and this is just my take, I'm not speaking for anyone else, here--is that having people who are optimized to different extents...

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...

Once again your experience is functionally the opposite of just about everyone else's--and you are conflating "spotlight hog" with...