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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7371873" data-attributes="member: 12377">I'm usually the one giving advice, and I try hard to be conscious of not stepping on other player's toes by swatting down reasonable ideas. In fact, at this point, I mostly point out the two most egregious errors I see people make:1) Ability scores don't match what they want their character to do. Like, if you have a Strength of 11, don't carry a warhammer and shield and wade into melee. Your attacks are kind of a waste of time. If that's what you want to do all day, maybe get your Strength up to at least a 14? Or, how's your Dex; try a finesse weapon? Got any attack cantrips? Or similarly, a player wants to be the talky guy but they've dumped Charisma. Oops! Yes, Virginia, some DMs really do call for Charisma checks. 2) Not Picking Any Useful Spells. Like, I get it, there are lots of "fun" spells so maybe you don't want to spend ALL your spell picks on the most devastating damage or crazy buff-combos. But, honestly, try to get at least an attack cantrip and some sort of nuclear option. You're not going to identify and rope trick enemies to death.I feel like some players, especially the ones that pick lousy spell lists, deliberately create crappy characters as a sort of passive-aggressive challenge to the game rules. "I should be allowed to play a cloistered pacifist! It makes me better than those violent min-maxers! It's role-playing!"Uhhh, yeah, that sounds pretty cool, until it's your turn in combat and you have nothing useful to do because your only relevant spell is vicious mockery. Great little spell; gets kinda boring spamming it session after session.</blockquote>

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