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<blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3503409" data-attributes="member: 7533">Exactly.The way I look at it is...&nbsp; In the vast majority of D&amp;D games (and most RPG games that I've played, at least), the player-characters are, essentially, professional heroes, adventurers, treasure-hunters and mercenaries.&nbsp; They know that, and there's no reason why they wouldn't have learned or picked up the skills (and feats, and classes, and spells, etc...) that would make them at least good, if not the best, at the profession they have chosen to pursue.So long as the &quot;powergaming&quot; makes sense within the bounds of the chracter concept and campaign setting, I don't usually have a problem with it.Even in Real Life, we see the equivalent of Power Gamers...&nbsp; All those &quot;workaholics&quot; who specialize and dedicate themselves to a profession to exclusion of all else.In a game like D&amp;D, it's the extremes at both ends that cause problems...&nbsp; People need to remember that it's not only a ROLE PLAYING game, but also a roleplaying GAME, and vice versa.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pbartender, post: 3503409, member: 7533"] Exactly. The way I look at it is... In the vast majority of D&D games (and most RPG games that I've played, at least), the player-characters are, essentially, professional heroes, adventurers, treasure-hunters and mercenaries. They know that, and there's no reason why they wouldn't have learned or picked up the skills (and feats, and classes, and spells, etc...) that would make them at least good, if not the best, at the profession they have chosen to pursue. So long as the "powergaming" makes sense within the bounds of the chracter concept and campaign setting, I don't usually have a problem with it. Even in Real Life, we see the equivalent of Power Gamers... All those "workaholics" who specialize and dedicate themselves to a profession to exclusion of all else. In a game like D&D, it's the extremes at both ends that cause problems... People need to remember that it's not only a ROLE PLAYING game, but also a roleplaying GAME, and vice versa. [/QUOTE]

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