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I have been known to scribble mine on toilet paper. :cry:

Methinks you have a definition of "optimizer" that nobody else on the planet is using. Or understands.

Exactly this. The argument that "all optimizers are jerks out to ruin everybody's fun" is symmetric to the argument that "roleplayers...

Degenerate optimisation is a system matters problem, specifically it's either a user error by the group/GM in selecting the wrong system...

Optimization is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used for good or ill. My own feeling is that I usually go into a game with an idea...

No, I have fun in many different kinds of games. From the angst-ridden Chronicles of Darkness, to a lot of Daggerheart recently, to...

This feels way too far off the deep end in an otherwise polite conversation.

My inclination is that as you move negative on the axis, you aren't making intentionally bad choices--making an intentionally bad...

The Technocracy got up to some crazy stuff. They took over entire deep Horizon Realms and transformed them into factory dimensions...

It's a good question. What does "-5" look like, on the -5/+5 scale someone proposed a while back? Is it strictly having very low stats...

Powergaming (optimizers, munchkins, ect.) is a recognized playstyle and there's nothing wrong with it. The players in a group aren't...

You see it a lot more in Streaming and Actual Play communities. For example, Ashley Johnson of Critical Role fame is a lovely person and...

I see the design as using Fear to set up and meter what are generally considered to be "hard moves" in the games it's borrowing the move...

I've been known to refer to Fear as my "shoulder demon"; I get far more Fear than I'd consider it fair to make things up in a normal D&D...