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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 4398474" data-attributes="member: 3400">Optimization, from a game rules standpoint, is rarely a problem. It's mainly a table problem. Any time you have choices to make between different options, optimization is a possibility and a potential strategy to follow. The problem only really comes up when specific players do it while other players do not. Then, it becomes a player competition problem in a cooperative game. PC1 is so tricked out that everybody else has trouble getting spotlight time. Or PC2 is so tricked out the DM has to annihilate everyone else to challenge him.In most cases, characters in just any D&amp;D edition did not need to be optimized (and I thank 3e, in particular, for reducing the high stats necessary to start to gain bonuses on the things PCs did because it reduced the need for stats that were off the charts)... until other PCs at the table were.So chalk me up as someone who thinks optimization is not a problem. Conflicting play styles is the primary problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 4398474, member: 3400"] Optimization, from a game rules standpoint, is rarely a problem. It's mainly a table problem. Any time you have choices to make between different options, optimization is a possibility and a potential strategy to follow. The problem only really comes up when specific players do it while other players do not. Then, it becomes a player competition problem in a cooperative game. PC1 is so tricked out that everybody else has trouble getting spotlight time. Or PC2 is so tricked out the DM has to annihilate everyone else to challenge him. In most cases, characters in just any D&D edition did not need to be optimized (and I thank 3e, in particular, for reducing the high stats necessary to start to gain bonuses on the things PCs did because it reduced the need for stats that were off the charts)... until other PCs at the table were. So chalk me up as someone who thinks optimization is not a problem. Conflicting play styles is the primary problem. [/QUOTE]

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