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If optimizing wasn't encouraged behavior by default the game shouldn't make optimizing good. Case in point: Swords & Wizardry Complete... -
Yeah. Talking about your own experiences/psychology is almost certainly fine, though probably not generalizable (and you should keep...
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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...
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The PF2e games I've played in says you're wrong. And this is, at best, a gross overgeneralization. There are plenty of optimizers who...
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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...
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You can also have games where the gap is less pronounced because the character generation makes it difficult to produce a character...
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Retros_x replied to the thread Optimization and optimizers....That is fair, but thats a general problem. Also if you just have "normal" players and bad ones at the table, or "normal" and optimizers...
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Retros_x reacted to MNblockhead's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with
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There is also a trend where the media finds ways to market nostalgia. In the 1930s through the 50s comic strips like Li'l Abner, Prince... -
Retros_x replied to the thread Optimization and optimizers....Thats also utter nonsense. As I said in that other thread, I consider myself a power gamer and optimizer. Never was I told I disrupt...
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Retros_x replied to the thread Optimization and optimizers....That is absolutely not true. You can just design harder fights. But designing more difficult fights is not more demanding for the DM, at...
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Retros_x reacted to MNblockhead's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with Like.
Age and industry make a difference. Generation X and older will tend to hold more negative connotations about TTRPGs than younger...
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Retros_x reacted to R_J_K75's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with Like.
Are the people at work really your friends or just colleagues that you associate with on the job or do you actually do other things...
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Retros_x reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with
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I definitely think younger generations are more open to this than Gen X and older folks are. The millennials and Gen Z folks at my work... -
Retros_x reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with Like.
D&D is still something of a mystery and a nerd thing amongst most of my generation (X). And it's like anything else - people are mostly...
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Retros_x reacted to Shiroiken's post in the thread D&D General In this day and age, people still laugh when you invite them to play D&D. with Like.
IME "I always wanted to do that" and "that's interesting" are typically just polite ways of saying they don't care. If they actually...
