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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7841539" data-attributes="member: 3400">Yeah, that can make it tough. If you want to game, you kind of get stuck with what's available. I experienced that back in the 1980s. Some of those people are my best friends to this day, and some others are just people we were largely stuck with. I understand that sometimes no gaming is better than bad gaming, but playing with a motley crew of whomever is around is sometimes better than nothing, even with all the headaches. You just need to approach it from a perspective of being entertained even if not edified by the experience. You may even learn something by observing what not to do.As far as dealing with power gamers and wallflowers, that can be tough. Best advice I can give is provide a mix of creatures in the encounters - some geared up for more optimization and some not. The higher-optimized ones should be the ones who move in to fight the PC power gamers while the others provide a more suitable challenge for the wallflowers. It's a bit like putting together a mixed supervillain team to fight the superhero team who has characters as different as Iron Man and Hawkeye in it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 7841539, member: 3400"] Yeah, that can make it tough. If you want to game, you kind of get stuck with what's available. I experienced that back in the 1980s. Some of those people are my best friends to this day, and some others are just people we were largely stuck with. I understand that sometimes no gaming is better than bad gaming, but playing with a motley crew of whomever is around is sometimes better than nothing, even with all the headaches. You just need to approach it from a perspective of being entertained even if not edified by the experience. You may even learn something by observing what [b]not[/b] to do. As far as dealing with power gamers and wallflowers, that can be tough. Best advice I can give is provide a mix of creatures in the encounters - some geared up for more optimization and some not. The higher-optimized ones should be the ones who move in to fight the PC power gamers while the others provide a more suitable challenge for the wallflowers. It's a bit like putting together a mixed supervillain team to fight the superhero team who has characters as different as Iron Man and Hawkeye in it. [/QUOTE]

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