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I would put -5 at not knowing how to play much at all. The first timer, or the guy that played with his brother a couple times or that classic guy that played a little back at school. Also that casual player that plays in a game every couple months. -4 Are the players with no interest in the...

I'm sure. As a DM you don't toss around your Ego making your character "super duper" to ruin the fun of others and "win the game" in your mind. As a +10 game type DM I can say this is not exactly true, as there is more to it. Optimizers MUST play in low games, like zero, in order to get their...

I am this type a DM. And I do love breaking Optimizers and send them crying from the game. But to back up a bit..... I do love optimization, and I'm an optimizer myself. Though as a Forever DM I am a homebrew optimizer: To be clear I don't play the silly Magic Card sub game of "who has...

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Sure there are very few optimizers that do it for good complex reasons. The bulk are jerks, or worse. Optimization is fuel for egos. The player is just thinking about themselves and specificity is not thinking about others. They must. Other then the few good ones, all optimizers are doing...

The obnoxious personality and optimization go hand in hand for nearly all players. This is possible for mature, intelligent players. Most people won't notice this type of optimization at all. Maybe 50% personality problems, 20% houserules/gentleman agreement/Happy Fun rule changes, 20% weak...

Every game has poorly written or edited stuff, and this does not even count typos and mistakes. I find 5E in general to be very weak, but I'm a 2E power gamer. It is not a problem in my games. I love to humble and break optimizers. It is a big reason I run games. There is a big difference...

There are some quarks here though: The biggest problem is that in a lot of games, and even more D&D, that if the player just picks and plays an "average" character they will be super over powered at best, and a full munchkin at worse. All while not "really doing it". This is a game rule...

It was enough of a trend or fad. The Rock really highlighted this type of tattoo (though his is not Maori) and as always people 'copy' famous people. I do think the tattoos were more popular on the West Coast, even more "around Hollywood"....likely were the writer was from. This is accurate...

Reality, Ohio, is a very small unincorporated community.........................

It is a bit much. There are a lot of factions. If you run a game with a plot, it is very hard to bring in all the factions and give them each a big spot light. It takes time to spot light each one and not just the "um, this group like undead" and "um, this group hates gods". And too often a...

As I live in Reality, it works out fine.

I see your just using "metagaming" as "anything you don't like". Metagaming is a Player thing: when players cheat by using information they should not know. A "convenience" is not metagaming. Again, I'd say everything "wrong" that you "don't like" is not just all put under the umbrella of...

Much of the time, like 75% of the time, the character would be 100% clueless about the risks or chances. The big, huge problem is many players feel they should have a perfect all knowing view of the game, like a DM. And then the player, knowing everything exactly, will decide what actions...

As an Old School 3 O'Clock High Teacher I can say this is accurate. Player Knowledge = Character Knowledge. Sure there were a couple of the Tyrant DMs that would make the big deal "Remember none of your characters know about trolls!" and then the DM can have some trolls attack and TPK the...

In general I go with the light touch for most games. PCs often only even take jewerly or art to pay NPCs or use for sacrifices or such. the two ton gold dragon statue....my PCs will just leave it or give it to the baron ("we killed all the drow, just go pick it up")

The Anything Goes (AG DM) can do anything they want: they by definition have no limits. Nearly all other DM types have huge limits: Fairness, Fair Play, The Gentleman Arrangement, The Lake Geneva Conventions, and Best Bud Bumps. At the very least. There is a huge list of hundreds of things...

It is very binary. Your on the side of the Players/Characters or your not. There really is no middle ground. You can't have an Easy Button game for three hours...then be even super nicer for ten minutes...then go back to Easy Button game. How would people even notice? Same way the Killer DM...