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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chaochou" data-source="post: 5586159" data-attributes="member: 99817">I don't think everyone uses it that way, including me. A lot of people I know use it as a straight synonym for optimiser.I agree that language would be a lot clearer and simpler if 'powergamer' was universally understood to mean someone whose optimisation was causing problems. It would make things much clearer to define it by its effect, rather than its cause. In fact I'd be happy for the noun 'powergamer' to go away and die somewhere and just to use 'powergaming' to describe instances of problematic optimisation. The same way people talk about 'railroading' but rarely describe a GM as 'a railroader'.Language ain't like that, tho, certainly in RPG-land. Agreed definitions of RPG terms are in short supply, be it powergamer, railroad, sandbox, or task resolution.</blockquote>