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It interesting, thanks for sharing! (sorry for the snip) What I'll say is that in the games I run, it's the martials who tend to deal...

It occurs to me you might find this interesting. I'm a player in a very long-running D&D campaign that always uses the current ruleset...

That's cool. I recognise that there are ways to make it work and have fun with it. Sometimes that's because of a deliberate approach and...

What the fresh hell? You asked for problems unequal optimization makes at the table, and I pointed at a few I've actually seen, and you...

Give yourself to Optimizing! It is the only way to save yourself, and your party. You'll win at everything forever! You'll win at...

Yup. My big two issues are 1. challenging said mixed party, where some are "standard effectiveness" and others are Very Optimized.. and...

The typical way over-optimization is a problem is when a given character outshines other characters, and makes the players of those...

Obviously we have different experiences and opinions and preferences, here, and I'm not going to try to argue you out of yours (and you...

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...