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If a task can be tried again and again until it succeeds without any costs or consequences - don't let them roll, just let them succeed...

4 steps is about the limit of tolerance for most people I've met. You can always have situations that require more steps, but those...

@Dannyalcatraz and @Snarf Zagyg You guys are gonna love this one... So, some lawyers use generative AI to prepare submissions to the...

That or just some sort of connection between the narration and the mechanics. When a paladin multiclasses into a warlock, there should...

I agree with you, but the entire game includes to me also DM restrictions and limitations. I never even played in a game where Volos...

I fully agreed with the rest of the post, but here I have to disagree. Heavy RP and Optimize are not opposites of a scale, you can do...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

You can also have games where the gap is less pronounced because the character generation makes it difficult to produce a character...

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...

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...