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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 4999853" data-attributes="member: 232">Not our group.  We don't usually call the other players names.  The group is all in their 30's with families and jobs and everyone is friends out of game as well as in game.  Most of the time they don't even know what the other people's ability scores are, it just isn't all that important to them to know the specific mechanics of the other characters.  Ugh, if any of my players threw around phrases like "true role player" then they would get made fun of.  We role play, but they aren't the strongest group for that but they are getting better.  No worries.  I remove the peer pressure not that there is much by having players select their scores in private (we have our own message boards for this) and not share what they pick.  Last time I did this it was a great social experiment.  After everyone picked their stats I asked all the players to write down who they thought who have picked the highest point buy total and then rank everyone else.  It was funny to see who everyone thought was going to pick the highest scores and then to see that their perception was very wrong when they saw the reality.We play in my own campaign world and their are great character concepts that come out of the world that would support straight 18's.  I've shown them that balance between PCs is not as delicate as some people think and by some people I'm including them in that.  As a DM I like to break people's expectations and show them that the game can still be fun by doing things different and its worked.  I've gotten a little lucky at times, but my basic premise has always been as long as we are gaming with friends fun will be had.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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