D&D General ENWorld is better that the pundits…change my mind

[MichaelSomething]

I honestly don't know how to respond to the rest of your post. Your anecdotal experiences are so alien to my own anecdotal experiences that we seem to be living in completely different spheres. I don't know which of us, if any, is the outlier.

Do you think D&D can accommodate the both of you? If not, which one of you should be catered to and which one should be ignored??

 

[guachi]

Heck, you even get a subset of folk for whom the very notion of "building" a character is anathema - so we have everyone covered regardless of preference (for good or ill).

In a Level Up game I'm running one of the players didn't like his PC. He made a new one focused on having as high a Perception as he could manage (19 Passive Perception at level 3) and he also ended up with a really high Insight.

Mechanically, he was a really good build. All of the other players, who are new to RPGs, thought the players old PC was a much better character. He wasn't just stats on a page. He was cool. I felt the same way.