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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 9805612" data-attributes="member: 6802951">There are so many other character building choices and potential for optimisation in 5e, that sabotaging entire classes just so there is a "best" and "worst" option is not good design at all.Wanting to play a "better character than anyone else" with no other preferences or thoughts as to concept or mechanics is an outlook so distasteful that I have to doubt that anyone that I would want to associate with would hold it. Wanting to play "the best xxx that I can" would be much more reasonable, but wanting to outdo the other players just for the sake of it is a social issue that should be stamped out as soon as it comes up.Likewise if someone wants to play a weaker character than the others, they are able to do so via Ability score and feat choices. I think it is very unlikely as an actual motivation for many real people however. I have played sidekicks and characters who didn't shine in a particular area more than once, but they all had their own areas of competence.</blockquote>