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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7401053" data-attributes="member: 6775031">In my games, I don't do that, because I am an impartial DM. If I was playing in a game, and the DM told me that none of my choices mattered because everything was scaled to provide the exact same level of challenge, then I would probably stop playing in that game (because none of my choices mattered).If your games have not degenerated as such, my best guess is that the players don't fully trust the GMs to scale things based on their own capabilities. It is amazingly counter-intuitive to expect that the world will change around you based on decisions you make for yourself.Have you actually had that conversation with your players, where you tell them that it doesn't matter where they put their stats or what equipment they use, because you'll scale the enemies to the same challenge level regardless? And if so, could you tell whether they actually believed that, or if they were just taking it as a caution against disruptive levels of optimization?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7401053, member: 6775031"] In my games, I don't do that, because I am an impartial DM. If I was playing in a game, and the DM told me that none of my choices mattered because everything was scaled to provide the exact same level of challenge, then I would probably stop playing in that game (because none of my choices mattered). If your games have not degenerated as such, my best guess is that the players don't fully trust the GMs to scale things based on their own capabilities. It is amazingly counter-intuitive to [I]expect[/I] that the world will change around you based on decisions you make for yourself. Have you actually had that conversation with your players, where you tell them that it doesn't matter where they put their stats or what equipment they use, because you'll scale the enemies to the same challenge level regardless? And if so, could you tell whether they actually believed that, or if they were just taking it as a caution against disruptive levels of optimization? [/QUOTE]

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