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<blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 6020612" data-attributes="member: 6693711">There will always be suboptimal choices to be made. But they don't have to be &quot;trap&quot; options that are hidden in the character creation minigame, and potentially ruin a player's entire experience with a character.Take a combat situation. The obviously optimal situation might be to shift 5 feet, take my attack action against the orc who has pinned the wizard against a wall, then use my CS die to cleave into an adjacent warg who has taken damage and is almost dead.But I'm playing my fighter as a more-chivalrous-than-intelligent knight, so instead I challenge the orc chieftan loudly to a one-on-one duel and then charge through a wall of orcs to meet him in honorable combat. Or I'm playing a scoundrel and opportunistic jerk, and I slink to one side of the combat and begin looting the fallen.Those are the kind of options that any game will offer, that actually allow you to roleplay (placing a 4 in Constitution isn't roleplaying, it's character creation), and that players make with their eyes wide open, aware of the likely consequences. And it's a kind of choice whose repercussions are fairly contained, meaning that you can change the choices you make during the course of play if you aren't enjoying the way things are working out.Playing a weakened character should be a choice, not an unfortunate mistake.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="slobster, post: 6020612, member: 6693711"] There will always be suboptimal choices to be made. But they don't have to be "trap" options that are hidden in the character creation minigame, and potentially ruin a player's entire experience with a character. Take a combat situation. The obviously optimal situation might be to shift 5 feet, take my attack action against the orc who has pinned the wizard against a wall, then use my CS die to cleave into an adjacent warg who has taken damage and is almost dead. But I'm playing my fighter as a more-chivalrous-than-intelligent knight, so instead I challenge the orc chieftan loudly to a one-on-one duel and then charge through a wall of orcs to meet him in honorable combat. Or I'm playing a scoundrel and opportunistic jerk, and I slink to one side of the combat and begin looting the fallen. Those are the kind of options that any game will offer, that actually allow you to roleplay (placing a 4 in Constitution isn't roleplaying, it's character creation), and that players make with their eyes wide open, aware of the likely consequences. And it's a kind of choice whose repercussions are fairly contained, meaning that you can change the choices you make during the course of play if you aren't enjoying the way things are working out. Playing a weakened character should be a choice, not an unfortunate mistake. [/QUOTE]

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