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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7986259" data-attributes="member: 7006">Well... I believe at the time I posted, [USER=6801328]@Elfcrusher[/USER] had not yet decided to go half-elf, they were still on a high elf build.And second... I happen to believe that optimization is unnecessary when you are building for flavor. Elfcrusher made the decision right at the top that they wanted to build a High Elf Rogue Swashbuckler.  That was the specific flavor they were going for.  So why in the world would they take the suggestion like some people said to add a few levels of Hexblade (for example)?  The Hexblade Warlock class/subclass has very specific flavor as well, and if someone was to take levels in that without actually applying said flavor to the character they were making... then yes, I think they were just taking game mechanics for the sake for it.Now if Elfcrusher had put forth the idea that they wanted to add additional backstory to their character, a little extra flavor... then sure, suggesting Hexblade would make sense.  But they didn't.  They said specifically "Here's my Rogue Swashbuckler build, I love the flavor and I know it isn't optimized, what do you think?"  And a bunch of people posted ways that completely ignored the flavor and just went optimization.  So I came back with a post that completely ignored optimization and was all about flavor.  You don't like that?  Well, too bad.  No one NEEDS to optimize a character build... because the range of difference between most builds is small enough that it doesn't really matter unless you are sitting at certain precariously-balanced tables.The fact that you seem to be so... I won't angry, but maybe "strident" is the right word... that I dared to suggest that the optimization suggestions for multiclassing did not seem to care a whit for the actual flavor of Elfcrusher's character and all that mattered in the suggestions was getting the right combo of mechanics together for a "Super Build"... is telling.  It seemed very, very important to you to make the point that a person can optimize a character up the wazoo while also supposedly maintaining tons of flavor (despite the actual posts not caring about that at all.) Thus I can't help but take your... intense... response to my post where I questioned that assertion as a bit of "They doth protest too much"... almost as though a mirror was held up to nature and you didn't care for the reflection that came back. But hey... you do you! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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