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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 321559" data-attributes="member: 5724">Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: munchkinto put it in terms similiar to yours.  I think that someone may have only slight tendancies to min/max in various aspects of their life, but when they find a game they enjoy playing that is completely designed around min/maxing (most two player games with a winner and a loser are designed as such), their tendancy to min/max in relationship to that particular game is increased.  Once these tendancies are supported (by being a winner) they tend to be implemented quicker when encountering new games (DnD).  I also believe that the 3e rules (which by the way i think are much better than the other editions) are designed to facilitate the min/max aspect.ie. to get back to what i said.  i think the honing of a group of individuals tendancies to min/max through the exposure to games which are solely based upon min/maxing (magic etc.) leads to a greater number of new gamers min/maxing.  It may just be the numbers haven't changed, as many people have said, but that the EFFECTIVENESS of their min/maxing has improved and that the system is more facile to such manipulations than it used to be.so, i dont think they create what im talking about, but i do believe they support such behavior.  which is what i at least hoped to say...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />joe b.Grog needs more words!</blockquote>

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