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<blockquote data-quote="Magus_Jerel" data-source="post: 198422" data-attributes="member: 3940">Right - I wasn't sure if that was a deliberate or non-delibarate pun; especially considering the number of posts you had made.Munchkinism is a &quot;polite but negative&quot; term for powergaming.Since you are an english major - perhaps the pun &quot;rollplaying&quot; vs &quot;roleplaying&quot; is a good analogy to explain it.Basically, asking for someone to trot out the &quot;hardcore math&quot; behind combat... and this is presumeably so that they can make decisions for their character.&nbsp; There can be only one intent of such a chart - deliberately maximizing the total damage they dish out.That - is playing the numbers, odds, or &quot;rolls&quot; as opposed to the &quot;role&quot; of a character.While there are a lot of people on this board who will be happy to assist you in making a character concept &quot;fit&quot; the rules; I as a GM don't want to assist those who are intent on playing a set of numbers, skills, and powers, that just happen to be on a character sheet.If you need explanations of other words used - please; let Me know - I'll watch the thread for it.If you need more in depth explanation - I would have to have an ICQ number... and private messaging isn't exactly enabled at the moment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Magus_Jerel, post: 198422, member: 3940"] Right - I wasn't sure if that was a deliberate or non-delibarate pun; especially considering the number of posts you had made. Munchkinism is a "polite but negative" term for powergaming. Since you are an english major - perhaps the pun "rollplaying" vs "roleplaying" is a good analogy to explain it. Basically, asking for someone to trot out the "hardcore math" behind combat... and this is presumeably so that they can make decisions for their character. There can be only one intent of such a chart - deliberately maximizing the total damage they dish out. That - is playing the numbers, odds, or "rolls" as opposed to the "role" of a character. While there are a lot of people on this board who will be happy to assist you in making a character concept "fit" the rules; I as a GM don't want to assist those who are intent on playing a set of numbers, skills, and powers, that just happen to be on a character sheet. If you need explanations of other words used - please; let Me know - I'll watch the thread for it. If you need more in depth explanation - I would have to have an ICQ number... and private messaging isn't exactly enabled at the moment. [/QUOTE]

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