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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7137619" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Wow. Your post has zero correlation with the words you quoted from my post.There is not one word suggesting that a &quot;better&quot; player would love playing a PC who didn't fit your preferred idiom, be that &quot;high stats&quot; or &quot;blonde&quot; or &quot;not a paladin.&quot;But a more skillful player would have more options for a low-stats PC than simply hiding in the back. It's fair to say that someone might not ENJOY playing Mindy the Rogue Sniper when they were hoping to roll up Super Dave; but it's false to claim that Lumpy the Inert Lump is their only option (at least in 5E--I'm not talking about e.g. 3E). I'm being charitable here by assuming that they played an ineffective PC out of lack of skill as opposed to, say, passive-aggressiveness. &quot;I can't be Super Dave so I'll make the worst PC I can and try to contribute nothing to draw attention to how sad you guys are making me.&quot; Instead I'll assume that the player was simply a new 5E player and didn't know what all of their options were.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7137619, member: 6787650"] Wow. Your post has zero correlation with the words you quoted from my post. There is not one word suggesting that a "better" player would [I]love[/I] playing a PC who didn't fit your preferred idiom, be that "high stats" or "blonde" or "not a paladin." But a more skillful player [I]would[/I] have more options for a low-stats PC than simply hiding in the back. It's fair to say that someone might not ENJOY playing Mindy the Rogue Sniper when they were hoping to roll up Super Dave; but it's false to claim that Lumpy the Inert Lump is their only option (at least in 5E--I'm not talking about e.g. 3E). I'm being charitable here by assuming that they played an ineffective PC out of lack of skill as opposed to, say, passive-aggressiveness. [I]"I can't be Super Dave so I'll make the [I]worst[/I] PC I can and try to contribute nothing to draw attention to how sad you guys are making me."[/I] Instead I'll assume that the player was simply a new 5E player and didn't know what all of their options were. [/QUOTE]

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