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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Waterbizkit" data-source="post: 7049625" data-attributes="member: 6802604">Editions don't pressure anyone to build a character one way or another, people do. It's about having shared goals and expectations with the people you sit down with at the table. It's a social game, it always has been... no matter how much pop culture likes to portray it as the hobby for socially awkward shut-ins. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> People need to simply remember to communicate with those they're playing with and everything should go rather well, or at the very least it'll mean some might better be able to reach the conclusion "Maybe this group/campaign/etc. isn't for me." I don't know, does this make sense to the rest of you? So in short, no 5e does not force players to optimize any more or less than any other edition. If you're sitting down with a group of like-minded friends it shouldn't matter. Hmmm. I thought that would be my closing statement, but you know as someone who's never played a "pick up" game at a local hobby shop I often forget about seeing things from that perspective. I suppose in that situation... my answer doesn't change, though the reasoning does. The disparity between a well optimized character and one that isn't is far narrower this edition, so I feel even in an instance where you might barely know the people you're sitting down with there's less pressure to optimize than there has been in the past.The end, I swear this time.</blockquote>

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