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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6444062" data-attributes="member: 2011">I think that this is easy to say, but hard to avoid in practice. And, it should not necessarily be avoided.How do players pick spells? They pick ones which seem like they would be fun to play, or effective, or useful. If they read a spell and it seems like it would suck, many players will not take it. Not even for &quot;character theme&quot; reasons.I suspect that except for an occasional decision to purposely avoid good character design for a specific reason (e.g. creating a low charisma PC for roleplaying purposes as one example), many if not most players do not make most of their PC design decisions solely for character theme reasons. At least not IME. One can take the roleplaying moral high ground and claim that people who make effective decisions are metagaming, but I opine that the people who say these things metagame when designing their PCs to some extent as well.It's a game. People play it to have fun. Making effective PC design decisions is a way many players like to do. That does not mean that they necessarily metagame significantly more then most anyone else. They just are making good decisions based on their understanding of the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 6444062, member: 2011"] I think that this is easy to say, but hard to avoid in practice. And, it should not necessarily be avoided. How do players pick spells? They pick ones which seem like they would be fun to play, or effective, or useful. If they read a spell and it seems like it would suck, many players will not take it. Not even for "character theme" reasons. I suspect that except for an occasional decision to purposely avoid good character design for a specific reason (e.g. creating a low charisma PC for roleplaying purposes as one example), many if not most players do not make most of their PC design decisions solely for character theme reasons. At least not IME. One can take the roleplaying moral high ground and claim that people who make effective decisions are metagaming, but I opine that the people who say these things metagame when designing their PCs to some extent as well. It's a game. People play it to have fun. Making effective PC design decisions is a way many players like to do. That does not mean that they necessarily metagame significantly more then most anyone else. They just are making good decisions based on their understanding of the game. [/QUOTE]

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