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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 5839052" data-attributes="member: 6680772">Basically, I'm happy playing any kind of D&amp;D.&nbsp; Railroads, dungeon crawls, it's all good.&nbsp; I don't like the concept of &quot;dealbreakers&quot;.&nbsp; That said, I have two.As a player, playing with highly optimized characters.&nbsp; I'm no good at it and I don't have the interest in it to get good at it, so it approaches anti-fun.&nbsp; I'm cool with random rolling and taking what the dice give me, and I enjoy doing some light customization around an idea.&nbsp; But I hate passing on interesting looking choices because they are underpowered, and I hate having to maximize my primary stat, when I'd like to maybe make an off the wall choice (Fighter with high intelligence!&nbsp; A hardy magic-user!).&nbsp; By no means am I saying &quot;Handicapped players make for good role-playing&quot;, nor am I saying optimizers and power gamers can't role-play.&nbsp; Only that I hate playing the chargen mini-game.&nbsp; If I'm given an optimized pre-gen, cool.&nbsp; If I'm DMing, probably not a problem.As a DM, games with no &quot;Rule 0&quot; or DM fiat.&nbsp; For me, as a DM, Rule 0 is as absolute as a Sith.&nbsp; As the name implies, to me it is even more fundamental to D&amp;D than SDCIWC.&nbsp; I reserve the right to change or ignore any written rules in my game, and the NRA will support repealing the 2nd Amendment before I give it up.&nbsp; Ironically, as a DM I don't even use it that much.&nbsp; But I must have it to run a game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 5839052, member: 6680772"] Basically, I'm happy playing any kind of D&D. Railroads, dungeon crawls, it's all good. I don't like the concept of "dealbreakers". That said, I have two. As a player, playing with highly optimized characters. I'm no good at it and I don't have the interest in it to get good at it, so it approaches anti-fun. I'm cool with random rolling and taking what the dice give me, and I enjoy doing some light customization around an idea. But I hate passing on interesting looking choices because they are underpowered, and I hate having to maximize my primary stat, when I'd like to maybe make an off the wall choice (Fighter with high intelligence! A hardy magic-user!). By no means am I saying "Handicapped players make for good role-playing", nor am I saying optimizers and power gamers can't role-play. Only that I hate playing the chargen mini-game. If I'm given an optimized pre-gen, cool. If I'm DMing, probably not a problem. As a DM, games with no "Rule 0" or DM fiat. For me, as a DM, Rule 0 is as absolute as a Sith. As the name implies, to me it is even more fundamental to D&D than SDCIWC. I reserve the right to change or ignore any written rules in my game, and the NRA will support repealing the 2nd Amendment before I give it up. Ironically, as a DM I don't even use it that much. But I must have it to run a game. [/QUOTE]

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