Why do people constantly criticize min/maxing? I mean, ok, beyond a certain point and it becomes little more than an exercise in breaking the system but there seems to be this opinion that any amount of min/maxing immediately makes you a bad roleplayer because it cancels out the ability to roleplay that character.
Or something to that effect.
I see it countless times where DM's say how they limit players and how they're disappointed that their players min/max or how doing so somehow detracts from roleplaying. I think that attitude is just ridiculous.
I honestly think it's just popular to think that and most people love getting on a bandwagon and being in the 'in' crowd.
Well... I'm a min/maxer and, if given the chance in a game where roleplaying is encouraged, I'm a damn good roleplayer too.
How it ever came to be that a hero had to be average to be 'realistic' or how min/maxing ever became a bad thing I truly don't understand.
I always focus my characters on one or two particular aspects or around a particular theme and in doing so end up min/maxing. The character, as a result, has strengths AND weaknesses. How is this a bad thing? How does this in any way detract from my ability to roleplay such a character? If anything, it gives me MORE to roleplay, not less because my character isn't some cookie-cutter, average Joe but rather a person with specific goals and aspirations.
So why is min/maxing a bad thing?
Or something to that effect.
I see it countless times where DM's say how they limit players and how they're disappointed that their players min/max or how doing so somehow detracts from roleplaying. I think that attitude is just ridiculous.
I honestly think it's just popular to think that and most people love getting on a bandwagon and being in the 'in' crowd.
Well... I'm a min/maxer and, if given the chance in a game where roleplaying is encouraged, I'm a damn good roleplayer too.
How it ever came to be that a hero had to be average to be 'realistic' or how min/maxing ever became a bad thing I truly don't understand.
I always focus my characters on one or two particular aspects or around a particular theme and in doing so end up min/maxing. The character, as a result, has strengths AND weaknesses. How is this a bad thing? How does this in any way detract from my ability to roleplay such a character? If anything, it gives me MORE to roleplay, not less because my character isn't some cookie-cutter, average Joe but rather a person with specific goals and aspirations.
So why is min/maxing a bad thing?