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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 9546681" data-attributes="member: 7031982">Roger that. I am trying to think of general reasons that a player might feel their character is useless, or even just 'not awesome'.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">They just don't like playing that type of character.  For example, I really don't enjoy playing characters with spell slots.  I don't even like non-casters who have "X/day" abilities.  The decision of whether I should use an ability now, or save it for an unknown event in the future, or trying to guess how much longer we go before we take a rest, is not the kind of tactical thinking I enjoy.  No DMing style is going to change that.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Badly unbalanced rules.  Yes, some games just make some character choices so bad that the statistical difference is quickly noticeable.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">DMing Style.  Although I've been saying 'jerk' this could also just be a kind, well-intentioned DM who doesn't know how to balance improvisation and rule adjudication in a way that lets everybody feel awesome.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Player experience/knowledge.  And lastly I can see cases where a player just doesn't know how to use a character, within the system being played, in a way that feels good.  (But I might still put this under #3: I think it's the DM's job to help them learn that.)</li> </ol>What do you think it was about that Barbarian that you didn't like?  Is there something to add to that list?</blockquote>

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