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I think we already touched on that up thread. You can do horror in most games as long as the rules don’t fight you. And, as you say, if the players aren’t invested nothing can save you. But I do think evocative rules absolutely can and do help. Running horror in Fate or D&D 5E is harder to pull...

That’s fantastic. You can make all kinds of wild nonsense with that.

Exactly. There's all different types of spy fiction. Sometimes you're just in the mood for a goofy super-spy with wild gadgets and Bond does that quite well. Especially the older stuff. But if you're looking for darker, more realistic stuff, Bond is going to disappoint every time. A good place...

It takes two to tango. If the other person doesn't respond like an adult, it doesn't matter. That has been my overwhelming experience with this kind of thing. Someone brings some ridiculous OP monstrosity to the table, I say some version of "could you not?" or "we don't do that here," and...

Yoink.

There are lots and lots of factors involved. For a short-run print (up to about 5k) of hardbacks it can take 5-6 weeks, depending, just to print and bind the things. The more you print, the longer it takes. There's also printer's proofs, the cards, the card box, and the slip cover to consider...

Even Perkins and Crawford do not stick to the rules of D&D when they run games in public. They have even less loyalty to RAW behind closed doors. Besides, the Daggerheart core even calls this out on page 7 with the Golden Rule and Rulings Over Rules. If the mechanics get in the way of the...

The anthropomorphizing is strong.

No, no, no. You don't understand. I'm a rogue. Not a thief. Big difference. Huge difference. I don't backstab, I sneak attack. I can sneak attack from any angle, not just the back. See, totally different. I don't steal, I liberate. So what if the things I liberate belong to someone else? I...

That's my impression as well. The main CR subreddit is mostly filled with toxic positivity where even the slightest whiff of not absolutely loving CR in every way imaginable is shouted down and down voted to oblivion. Fansofcriticalrole is basically the opposite. Nothing but complaints and...

Not this thread. That has to be the most hilarious reading comprehension fail and strawman combo I’ve seen in a long time.

Here's a dedicated thread for this side conversation. https://www.enworld.org/threads/optimization-and-optimizers.714012/

To prevent the topic from consuming another thread, here's a dedicated thread for this topic.

Mel Brooks is on a mad dash to cash in before he checks out.

That's not my experience at all. Someone picking up the core book and giving it a good-faith reading and figuring out that it's a good idea to put your best stat in your class's primary ability score, etc isn't an optimizer. The kind of math-focused gamers who're out to win the game in character...

In my experience that's exactly what happens. The optimizer gets it in their head that the atrocious and mangled reading of the rules that allows them infinite power is somehow a good-faith interpretation and gets really bent out of shape when disabused of that notion when such characters are...