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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nac_Mac_Feegle" data-source="post: 2789462" data-attributes="member: 32300">Once again, I am accused of powergaming by people who fail to see what im tlkaing about.Why is my playing a half orc afraid of water being dsiruptive, if I dont kne before hand its a high seas adventure? If I knew I owuld choose something a little more playable, but again, you seem to see it as MY fault I didnt know somethign that was unknowable.I as a PC, expect to run into water during characters career, therefore what is disruptive about Hydrophobia? its just a roleplaying angle, completely innapropriate to a high seas adventure granted, which is why a hydrophobe would not be in one. I fail to see how thats me being desruptive.And as for min maxing, what are you expecting in D&D?A warrior hits things, he doesnt get a lot of skills, but he can use every martial weapon and every armour, so you play to your strengths, is that min maxing? I dont expect to be the belle of the ball wiht my social skills, I dont have any, or they are severly limited, but I oculd take feats to improve that, then get accused of being a power gamer because I want to do everythingWhy do poeple equate Playing to a class strength as min/maxing?A rogue/assassin is a natural progresion of a class, is that min/maxing? playing to my characters strengths? How about the gambler i rolled up, used a lot of social skills, bluff etc, again, using the rogues large skill list to follow a style of character, min/maxing again I guessI dont want to come across as a powergamer, but the game has classes, and most poeple play to those classes strengths, and this idea thats to utelise a class strength is min/maxing is ludicrous in the extreme.You can pretend to be rincewind, and play a mage wiht absolutely no magic abilites, but that would be daft, however, pay him as a rogue who just thinks hes a failed wizard would allow you to build in his escape artist, bluff, sense motive and all those other skills he displays. Would that be powergaming? Or is that shaping a character to fit a concept?I just dont get why you assume me to be powergaming because I would like some idea of the type of game the GM intends to play, its a 2 way street, I cant play something he clearly doesnt want in his campaign, and we shouldnt have to play characters clearly unsuited to the campaign he has in mindI am glad I dont play in your games shaman, your coming across in the vein "its my game, if you dont like it, your a powergamer, so get lost" I see no compromise in you. And thats what D&D is about, compromise, were all playing a game, its not PC vs DM.Feegle Out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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