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<blockquote data-quote="Chaldfont" data-source="post: 3131909" data-attributes="member: 1472">I totally agree with this. I hate the use of the word &quot;build&quot;. My group asked a guy not to come anymore because he was like this. We all want to play an interesting character--not necessarily the optimized (what us old schoolers would call &quot;min/maxed&quot;) character. Having someone disrespect your character choices is not fun.But we had this, to a lesser degree, back in the day. I remember guys telling someone to drop a non-magical axe in favor a +1 short sword and getting the reply, &quot;yeah, but my guy likes axes.&quot;Another problem I have with &quot;builds&quot;: I think a lot of time they come from people not really playing the character much. In a real, organic campaign, important themes and goals change all the time. Everybody might need to take on a new language, or sneaking might become something everybody needs to be able to do. You never see non-optimal stuff like this in a pregenerated, optimized build.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaldfont, post: 3131909, member: 1472"] I totally agree with this. I hate the use of the word "build". My group asked a guy not to come anymore because he was like this. We all want to play an interesting character--not necessarily the optimized (what us old schoolers would call "min/maxed") character. Having someone disrespect your character choices is not fun. But we had this, to a lesser degree, back in the day. I remember guys telling someone to drop a non-magical axe in favor a +1 short sword and getting the reply, "yeah, but my guy likes axes." Another problem I have with "builds": I think a lot of time they come from people not really playing the character much. In a real, organic campaign, important themes and goals change all the time. Everybody might need to take on a new language, or sneaking might become something everybody needs to be able to do. You never see non-optimal stuff like this in a pregenerated, optimized build. [/QUOTE]

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