Thomas Shey's latest activity

Its a great bundle. Unfortunately I already have pretty much everything I'd want out of it.

Yeah. Talking about your own experiences/psychology is almost certainly fine, though probably not generalizable (and you should keep...

I finally had to resort to the Ignore button to prevent myself from incurring the Wrath of Red Text, so I'm not going to directly...

My take--and this is just my take, I'm not speaking for anyone else, here--is that having people who are optimized to different extents...

Well, its based on the fact that even people who aren't oriented toward optimization want to feel like they're contributing. If some...

In my experience some people are jerks, but most people want to follow the social rules. An actively bad game is one in which you are...

Once again your experience is functionally the opposite of just about everyone else's--and you are conflating "spotlight hog" with...

The PF2e games I've played in says you're wrong. And this is, at best, a gross overgeneralization. There are plenty of optimizers who...

I've left tables when everyone else was clearly enjoying the play but it was driving me kinda nuts (in a bad way). I have persistently...

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.