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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7888341" data-attributes="member: 29398">Somewhat cancelled off by the reduced player engagement, fostered by the same thing, from players who would rather spend their time playing their characters than building them and-or who aren't all about the system-mastery game-within-the-game.Players feel they have to use those options because they know full well that if they don't, someone else at the table probably will; increasing that PC's odds of surviving (winning) at expense of your own.  It's almost like an arms race, where the only way to truly curtail it is to not produce the arms (options) in the first place.3e and its offspring are/were particularly bad for this.And sure, non-AL DMs can ban whatever they like, but many don't want to be the Grinch at the table (and-or get out-talked or out-voted by the players) and so they just accept what's in the books.</blockquote>