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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 3043605" data-attributes="member: 7240">I'm none too impressed with the article or the situation. LostSoul makes some really solid points.But, if I may hijack the thread, there is a player I used to have, whom Teflon Billy also had in several of his games, who looks not for holes in the plot but holes in the system. This player, who has degrees in mathematics and English literature, and is pursuing a PhD at the moment, has an incredible ability to detect the holes in a game system and exploit them in thoroughly unpleasant ways.In my most recent interaction with him as a player, he decided to pour energy into Charisma-based skills so the he could involve as many unstatted NPCs in whatever he was doing as he possibly could. Knowing that I lacked mass combat rules, he attempted to seize control of the plot by staying within the rules but creating situations the rules were unable to handle. That's my definition of a player who is too smart.</blockquote>