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Where does optimizing end and min-maxing begin? And is min-maxing a bad thing?
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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7060021" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>No, I didn't miss that. I said in the beginning that I largely agree. I figured I would just give an example for the sake of discussion. </p><p></p><p>With Pathfinder, I think there is a bit of a disparity in saying "as long as all the players do it" because of the amount of material there is. The Arcane Archer player was certainly no slouch when it came to making effective characters. But he worked with the Core Rulebook only. The Barbarian Player had just about every splatbook at his disposal through a HeroLab account. And Pathfinder has something like 847 splatbooks. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, it was a corner case....but it definitely caused an issue. </p><p></p><p>And I don't know if I'd call it a wash, necessarily. I get your point....but I do find it annoying when there is one character who is the best at everything, even if he doesn't have to often use all the resources at his disposal.</p><p></p><p>But again, I mostly agree with the general sentiment....I don't really have a problem with min/maxing and I think it's especially less significant in 5E. But hey 15 pages in, I figured nothing wrong with providing an example to discuss.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 7060021, member: 6785785"] No, I didn't miss that. I said in the beginning that I largely agree. I figured I would just give an example for the sake of discussion. With Pathfinder, I think there is a bit of a disparity in saying "as long as all the players do it" because of the amount of material there is. The Arcane Archer player was certainly no slouch when it came to making effective characters. But he worked with the Core Rulebook only. The Barbarian Player had just about every splatbook at his disposal through a HeroLab account. And Pathfinder has something like 847 splatbooks. Yeah, it was a corner case....but it definitely caused an issue. And I don't know if I'd call it a wash, necessarily. I get your point....but I do find it annoying when there is one character who is the best at everything, even if he doesn't have to often use all the resources at his disposal. But again, I mostly agree with the general sentiment....I don't really have a problem with min/maxing and I think it's especially less significant in 5E. But hey 15 pages in, I figured nothing wrong with providing an example to discuss. [/QUOTE]
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