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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7865385" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Nope. The problem is in your mind. In fact, you started by saying you have "too many options" and then you said the above... too many subclasses don't appeal to you, so actually that means you have LESS subclasses to choose from; none of the oaths "fit" with your game, so you actually don't have ENOUGH options; you had to decide between only TWO options and you were stuck, so that's clearly not because there are too many (less than two, and you would have no choice to make) but only because you had something else in mind that blocked your choice.</p><p></p><p>5e does NOT have too many options. If you get stuck at character creation or level up, that's probably because you are overthinking or overestimating the importance of those choices. You might be thinking too much about what is the "optimal" choice, and in most case it doesn't matter. The randomness of the game (not just the dice, but the sheer variance and unpredictability of what you will encounter in the adventures) will make "optimality" be an advantage only on the very long term, and probably even 20 levels won't be long enough to notice a serious difference.</p><p></p><p>In addition, IMO it's a bad habit for players to think that their PC must be "perfect" as if it was the one and only PC they will even play... most PCs don't last more than a few levels anyway before the game wraps up and you join another campaign, but even if you do have good reasons to believe it will last years, you'll have other games to join and other PCs to create.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7865385, member: 1465"] Nope. The problem is in your mind. In fact, you started by saying you have "too many options" and then you said the above... too many subclasses don't appeal to you, so actually that means you have LESS subclasses to choose from; none of the oaths "fit" with your game, so you actually don't have ENOUGH options; you had to decide between only TWO options and you were stuck, so that's clearly not because there are too many (less than two, and you would have no choice to make) but only because you had something else in mind that blocked your choice. 5e does NOT have too many options. If you get stuck at character creation or level up, that's probably because you are overthinking or overestimating the importance of those choices. You might be thinking too much about what is the "optimal" choice, and in most case it doesn't matter. The randomness of the game (not just the dice, but the sheer variance and unpredictability of what you will encounter in the adventures) will make "optimality" be an advantage only on the very long term, and probably even 20 levels won't be long enough to notice a serious difference. In addition, IMO it's a bad habit for players to think that their PC must be "perfect" as if it was the one and only PC they will even play... most PCs don't last more than a few levels anyway before the game wraps up and you join another campaign, but even if you do have good reasons to believe it will last years, you'll have other games to join and other PCs to create. [/QUOTE]
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