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Nope! I think they're just jerks.

Well, that's the other problem, when you end up under management you really, really don't want to be under.

Do they have a separate budget? If so, that's all that's needed.

Yeah. Scion 2e has a couple fixes for this (one I like better than the other), but to some degree it still exists (a character with...

Though even within that, there are issues of what lifting the complexity is doing, and if it had to be that way to get the job done in...

Or, if we want to, I dunno, be more gracious in our reading, it suggests that their experience without it has had many boring bits...

Were they in a different department? Because the truth is, there's usually a lot of perverse incentives for people in different...

As others have said, it can also be problematic when trying to challenge the party properly. Using too much, challenging the optimized...

I normally disliked doing this, but one of the things I was virtually forced to do when running Scion 1e was to be very picky what...

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...