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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3132098" data-attributes="member: 29014">Unless you are playing a character with 4 or lower in some mental ability score or is perhaps Chaotic Neutral/Evil and quite insane, I would say that the problem isn't with optimising.&nbsp; It's bad roleplaying.To eschew a known effective weapon or spell and use ones that continually do nothing to the enemy, even to the death of the entire party unless someone argues with you over it would require a WoT-Aiel-style cultural taboo to never use swords ever ever no matter what, not just 'I like axes'. Now, if your character had an Aiel-style taboo to never use swords, no one in my game, myself included, would get on your case to use the shortsword.&nbsp; If not, this is an unreasonable way to play a human being (barring insanity or microscopic mental scores, though even animals are smarter than that, actually).As to Indiana Jones, gizmo good points aside, note that I didn't say to throw away the axe or even not to use the axe generally.&nbsp; I said to use the axe and carry the shortsword as backup for opponents with DR.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3132098, member: 29014"] Unless you are playing a character with 4 or lower in some mental ability score or is perhaps Chaotic Neutral/Evil and quite insane, I would say that the problem isn't with optimising. It's bad [I]roleplaying[/I]. To eschew a known effective weapon or spell and use ones that continually do nothing to the enemy, even to the death of the entire party unless someone argues with you over it would require a WoT-Aiel-style cultural taboo to never use swords ever ever no matter what, not just 'I like axes'. Now, if your character had an Aiel-style taboo to never use swords, no one in my game, myself included, would get on your case to use the shortsword. If not, this is an unreasonable way to play a human being (barring insanity or microscopic mental scores, though even animals are smarter than that, actually). As to Indiana Jones, gizmo good points aside, note that I didn't say to throw away the axe or even not to use the axe generally. I said to use the axe and carry the shortsword as backup for opponents with DR. [/QUOTE]

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