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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet-7" data-source="post: 8870798" data-attributes="member: 7025282">People have different ideas of what they want to play.  I am in no way ashamed of saying my group loves combat.  A lot.  We skipp haggling with merchants over rope and rations.  Not our bag.I just have given up the dichotomy of power gamer vs. non power gamer.Many things are just for power.  You telling me polearm master is really leaning into your history as a soldier?  Or ASIs?  “I am sir Beefcake!  I love to work out and joust on my off days!  It’s why I have advanced to a 20 str!  Let my personality and love of muscle be known!”Choosing better armor…not a personality defining feature most of the time.  So many choices are about accomplishing the goal.Maybe this is optimizing and not powergaming?  If powergaming is about dominance in the absence of all else my rule of no asshats is a parsimonious way of having fun across the continuum of different preferences.</blockquote>