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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6959156" data-attributes="member: 20564">I have the most fun when everyone else is at the same level.  Because I can pretty much hit a level of mechanical effectiveness that matches a party*, but when some striker-types are doing 50+ points of damage and others need a crit to get to 20, I have no idea what level to tune my characters to play at.On the flip side, optimization is often a theoretical-only solo exercise.  It's lots of fun coming up with whatever combo, figuring out how the synergy between X and Y with a dash of Z becomes really cool.  But mostly it's like sudoku and won't hit an actual table. * Okay, if I'm not going for a support/buff character, I will often build characters to match party output but be a bit more together on the defense.  On the other hand in 3.0 I played the CON 8 Elven Wizard (rolling d4-1 for HPs) who liked to go into melee with his longsword.  (Early on we got attacked by ghouls and eventually everyone but him was paralyzed and I was out of spells (this was before cantrips).  So I used the sword and survived, and it became a thing with him.)</blockquote>