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Though the dynamic can play out very differently outside the D&D sphere. In games like RuneQuest, you can have combats where its pretty...

There were always people who didn't care as long as a site worked in IE.

I've softened my stance on optimization from in the past, where I thought it was a pox on the hobby. Optimizers are not only perfectly...

I mean, non-optimizers benefit massively more from both of those changes than optimizers lol. Optimzers will usually have PCs with...

I did use the word "too easily". RuneQuest characters could be killed by one hit but it usually required a critical hit or relatively...

One of the things that complicates this is a lot of games have really poor rules for handling attempts to flee. The net effect of that...

To be honest, even the OD&D's FM was only marginally competent; too easily killed by one hit from even the monsters you expected at the...

Go back far enough and you could question whether they were competent at all. OD&D MUs, clerics and thieves were often of really...

Noted.

Well, to some extent it turns on what you expect characters to do in a game. Most games expect them to be interesting and well...

This is exactly what I've been thinking about the last few pages. In the RPGs I mostly play, optimization in chargen (and progression)...

Sorry, you can attempt to optimize -- be an optimizer -- even if you don't understand the rules well. You'd just not effective at it...

Until the Daggerheart playtest last year, the idea of a session zero never even existed to my group. People would chat on our FB...

An easy line to use when you get to define "reality".

That's why I said degenerate. 'Fighters should have high strength, weapon specialisation, and maybe throw darts' is optimisation but...