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That's far narrower than a lot of people using the term mean by it.

I fully agreed with the rest of the post, but here I have to disagree. Heavy RP and Optimize are not opposites of a scale, you can do...

As I've noted, the big problem there is a lot of players have been taught to not let opponents retreat, and often the same systemic...

I do? I’m going to have to see about some hardship pay.

Exactly that, in fact, though I don't usually have a huge amount of end-session notes; generally just Icon related requests and...

No, I'm stating a pretty well known part of writing. You can't have a piece be all something all the time. To quote Asimov, "you can't...

Nice counterpoint! Although, counter-counterpoint, this hasn't been the case for at least a decade*. But I'm picking up what you're...

As I noted earlier, there's matters of degree here; its entirely possible to think you don't care someone has a bit more oomph, but not...

Absolutely, but I've seen this enough to have what seems at least adequate evidence it isn't just me, either. I mean, just look at a...

What the fresh hell? You asked for problems unequal optimization makes at the table, and I pointed at a few I've actually seen, and you...

You'd think, but it doesn't always work that way. Among other things, they can go into it thinking they're going to be contributing...

How is discrepancy in optimization a problem, outside of jerk behavior? There's the en passant steamrollering of someone else's...

As do modern Minecraft installations apparently. My eldest daughter was heavily into Minecraft a decade or so ago and back then...

I get what you're saying but ultimately, if the game only works when people don't think about it too much, then the game doesn't really...

In principle, I agree there shouldn't be a cap on how effective a legal PC can be. In practice, a large enough discrepancy can be a...