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<blockquote data-quote="Marc_C" data-source="post: 8226445" data-attributes="member: 7025897">I had an optimizer who constantly bullied other players into playing the best possible action every single combat round despite the role-playing desires of the players.I told him that wasn't necessary since I didn't super optimized all the foe's actions. I prefer a role-playing approach to combat. He said combat in D&amp;D was a mini-wargame inside the role-playing game. Role-playing should stop when combat starts. Others players didn't agree with him.The next game I had a special combo just for him. One creature would stun his character and the next one knocked him prone. All his character could do, on his turn, was get up with no attack. I repeated the process 4-5 rounds in a row. He started getting upset asking how long this would last. I said &quot;Well I'm optimizing, that is what you said D&amp;D combat was.&quot;He wasn't so keen on full combat optimization by other players after that. Lesson learned.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marc_C, post: 8226445, member: 7025897"] I had an optimizer who constantly bullied other players into playing the best possible action every single combat round despite the role-playing desires of the players. I told him that wasn't necessary since I didn't super optimized all the foe's actions. I prefer a role-playing approach to combat. He said combat in D&D was a mini-wargame inside the role-playing game. Role-playing should stop when combat starts. Others players didn't agree with him. The next game I had a special combo just for him. One creature would stun his character and the next one knocked him prone. All his character could do, on his turn, was get up with no attack. I repeated the process 4-5 rounds in a row. He started getting upset asking how long this would last. I said "Well I'm optimizing, that is what you said D&D combat was." He wasn't so keen on full combat optimization by other players after that. Lesson learned. [/QUOTE]

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