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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 2892653" data-attributes="member: 13703">Kormydigar, by your reasoning that no character should be making sub-optimal combat choices in combat, should a Wisdom 3, Intelligence 3 Fighter always choice the optimal way to approach any combat situation?  Should he avoid all attacks of opportunity and weave a path through the front-line fighters so that he can attack the mage at the back?  Or would he just charge the first thing that he saw coming towards him?  If he chose the first option all the time, every combat I would be a little disappointed that the person wasn’t playing in character.As for not being able to survive unless you make optimal choices in combat, one of the PC’s in the party has a split personality character.  One half is a cowardly sorcerer, who looks to avoid combat at all times and when the party inevitably gets involved in one he stands at the back, marginally assisting other party members, but generally remains ineffective.  The other half of his personality is a barbarian who is basically the exact opposite of the sorcerer.  He is always the first into a fight and will often rush over to help out other PC’s in combat, even if he is seriously wounded and stepping back to get some healing may be the best option.The player definitely doesn’t make optimal choices when he is the sorcerer and it can be debated as to whether he is when he is the barbarian.  Is it in character?  Hell yeah.  Is it entertaining for the player, GM and other players?  Yep.  Has the PC or other PC’s died as a result of him sub-optimal choices in combat?  Not so far.  The closest has been when the barbarian charged into a combat against 2 Ooze Paraelementals and was taken into negative HP’s due to a couple of lucky dice rolls on my part.  No other party member have been taken into the negatives so far.Sure, I understand that sometimes this sort of action may result in PC deaths but at the same time that happens to parties that have powergaming PC’s making optimal combat choices 100% of the time.  Sometimes players roll badly or the GM rolls really well.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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