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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 7983398" data-attributes="member: 7023840">I think that this is the key, right here.If a player comes up with a great idea for their character, then I will move heaven and earth and work with them to reskin and/or homebrew to make that character come alive and still work effectively. There is nothing better than an invested player, and a cool character that they like to play.On the other hand, there is little more disheartening than a player who builds up useless roleplaying traits as some sort of ex post justification for a mechanical advantage that they have found in the rules. "Yeah, I sacrifice a chicken every day! That's totally roleplaying, man!"I have less respect for this type of backwards building (cart pulling the horse) than I do for straight-forward optimizers who dispense with the need for a fiction.</blockquote>