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This reflects my experience as well. As a kid, I certainly had issues with people building ridiculous overpowered characters and...

I'm less interested in specific terminology than I am just making it clear that MOST optimizers are decent people who share the...

Do you need me to define them for every class in 5E? In every RPG? In D&D most classes have one "correct" primary stat that only weird...

No, but I think you're in danger of going that way if we say "Oh that's why people do it and it's totally legit to use optimizer as a...

It may help to note that historically (to my recollection), "munchkin" originated in the early 80s as a pejorative nickname to refer...

Yes. This is why games where optimization is barely a viable thing (like default CoC) or where the range of potential optimization is...

This is as far as I got in the thread before feeling a need to respond. Anyone who I'm repeating, please accept my apologies. (Also...

No, that's Monty Haul you're describing. And it's a pretty precise description of Monty Haul too! Literally you've nailed all the major...

Sure, but that's ahistorical. Munchkin and the like were terms still in use in that era, and absolutely no-one old enough to remember...

I think if you intentionally use a term that has a relevant meaning that's not the way you're using it, you are probably either not a...

I've said no such thing. Players (and I mean people who play, run, do anything with the game) do it without prompt, and then get accused...

Correct, that is what I was thinking of!

'Struth. "Vagabond". ;)

This is nice and all but words still have meaning, and optimizing means optimizing and optimizers means people who optimize their...

Rome's not unique. Have you ever been to Athens? But even where I live, in the Netherlands, it became law perhaps 25 years ago that...