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Yes, agreed. Let's face it: there are different approaches to RPGing, different playstyles, different values, different aesthetic...

I think the last sentence is the important thing, though there is a large middle space between your two options, and there's nothing...

You do realise you just reversed the statement you were replying to. That they talked about optimizers trying to make people feel bad...

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...

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

It can be a pain if you have a mixture of optimizer and non-optimizer players at the table.

Its sufficiently uncommon that Maptool no longer assumes you'll have a separate installation of it, so it bakes one into its own install.

Oh, since the above was cut and paste right out of my working document, it still shows some of the bookkeeping (damage and such) in the...

Okay, this was the session note for the fourth of a series of related adventures with a group I called the Hexagram, which were trying...

Okay, you asked for it. Next post.

As usual, this is the opposite of my experience; optimizers are at their best in hard games, and in fact, are often bred by same. The...

My experience is that I end up adapting to the parties I'm running for; having an optimizer or three in the party isn't any different...

Well, the problem there is that PCs aren't shabby at making a retreat impossible for opposition in a lot of games either, and a lot of...

There are a lot of ways to handle retreating that don't make it a fool's game; its just not particularly common to do so. As I noted...

One solution for the 'hard to retreat due to action economy' is to grant the retreating party a special retreat surprise action where...