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Sorry. You are right. I was using the wrong definition of Powergaming. By definition it is negative. Powergaming (or power gaming) is a style of interacting with games or game-like systems, particularly video games, boardgames, and role-playing games, with the aim of maximising progress towards...

Powergaming isnt the issue EVER. Disruptive Behavior is. If I bellied up to your table to play with rolled stats put in the order that would best benefit my characters mechanical power with the right feats I could for sure build a character that was more capable than if I just randomly...

While I find nothing wrong with having a optimized or at least fully functional character who can do his"job" it is also fun to play someone who isn't. Though it does take buy in from others at the table as well. One of my Fav characters was a Wizard(Sorcerer) with a 9 int who insisted he was a...

It was a Jerk Tweet. Happens... Not every Tweet can be the gold nugget we want them to be.

The real funny thing here is that the OP is a POWERGAMER. See without defining Power gaming its left open to interpretation. There will ALWAYS be people who disagree with you. To some people being a POWERGAMER is anything other than rolling 3D6 in order for stats. What??? You decide where your...

Powergamers are indeed allowed in my game and I have NEVER once had a issue with them in the 40+ years I have been playing. Hhahaha I started playing in the mid 70's. I was 8 years old when the older kids got us to play so they could have some warm bodies to hold stuff and act as trap detectors...

Sorry man but you are failing to see the writing on the wall. You might have a right to feel frustrated in another thread and I do agree with your post in regards to you do NOT have to play with everyone and it's perfectly fine to be picky who you play with what styles are at your table. In a...

There is nothing wrong with wanting to play a optimized character and being as bad arse as you can get. There IS something wrong if that's all you care about and your character has no personality, goals, wants and dreams. The DM and other players need something to work with. Make friends, make...

1,000% this. Great post that hit the nail right on the head.

Your post is troll bait. It's really a DM who needs more practice(Don't we all) and is coming online to vent. How about instead of acting like a Bad ol Troll DM you tell us what happened and maybe we can help. Out and out screaming about a play style and calling BAD and then trying to walk...

Every player at my table has her own pH book, even the taco Bell worker and the McDonald's employee.

Don't do it unless it's fun. This applies to everything. Don't DM unless you have fun doing so. Don't kill off the player characters unless that group finds death being a important thing to have in the game. Don't build a chase into the adventure unless it's fun. Fun is what this entire...

Nine pages it took me before I realized this wasn't a large thread about the Dragonlance deity Paladine..........or WAS it?

When I was first starting out DMing I was real rough. Heck I have made just about every mistake a DM can make over the years and more than once has this gotten me into hot water with a group of players. SEVERAL times I was either convinced to let someone else give it a shot or just flat out had...

C&C is a grade A+ RPG that I don't play. I have played it, a lot in past years but it has joined a small list of games that I loved but stopped playing for one reason or another. No rpg is perfect or even close to perfect. 5E has as many or more warts than C&C so it isn't that C&C had too many...

I have done the exact same thing and doing the following things might help. 1-Everyone just play online. This however lowers the fun for everyone,NOT that is still isn't fun, just not as much fun. 2-Admit that yes there will be a difference and make sure you are as inclusive as you can be...

I decided just to ban any race not in the player handbook. Done. Their did complain but I offered to let them DM and roll up a character and they declined. I agree somewhat that some of them are murderhoboish but I'm fond of them anyway.

Well,no pc was ever actually killed at the front gate. I just thought that was a good tittle and cut to the heart of the matter. The fact that some of my players want to play monster characters but do not want to have any negatives socially at all and certainly do not ever want to be judged by...

Also isn't there a orc kingdom? I mean couldn't you run a hidden empires kind of setting in Faerun? Maybe like the orcs are more open and have cities with all kinds of monster races and a inverted map of faerun where the hidden empty places on the normal map are filled in with humanoid towns and...

You do realize that those cities in 2nd edition had in the guides to those cities open bounties on humanoid races right? you turned in sets of ears for gold. It was in there version of The Guide to the sword coast setting books. Greyhawk for even MORE up front about it. but regardless.....I did...