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<blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 2958204" data-attributes="member: 16221">Min maxing is minimizing weakness, and maximizing strengths.&nbsp; So every time you put your &quot;high stat&quot; in something beneficial for your class, like putting that 16 in strength for a fighter, that's min maxing, to an extent.&nbsp; When you choose one weapon over another due to the crit multplier or the size of the dice used, that's min maxing.&nbsp; All these things are min maxing.&nbsp; Anything that makes a character mechanically powerful at all is by definition min maxing.But yes, there are DEGREES of min maxing.&nbsp; Pun Pun could be seen at the high end of that scale, and the Turkey Sandwich could be seen at the opposite end, with most people somewhere in the middle.But this poll makes no distinction by scale.&nbsp; Where do things stop being &quot;making a balanced character&quot; and enter into &quot;abusing the rules&quot; as the implication is with regards to the phrase min maxing here.&nbsp; Well, that even varies between different groups!The trouble is, min maxing is a very fuzzy term loaded with emotional baggage.&nbsp; As such, I had to vote the last option.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fieari, post: 2958204, member: 16221"] Min maxing is minimizing weakness, and maximizing strengths. So every time you put your "high stat" in something beneficial for your class, like putting that 16 in strength for a fighter, that's min maxing, to an extent. When you choose one weapon over another due to the crit multplier or the size of the dice used, that's min maxing. All these things are min maxing. Anything that makes a character mechanically powerful at all is by definition min maxing. But yes, there are DEGREES of min maxing. Pun Pun could be seen at the high end of that scale, and the Turkey Sandwich could be seen at the opposite end, with most people somewhere in the middle. But this poll makes no distinction by scale. Where do things stop being "making a balanced character" and enter into "abusing the rules" as the implication is with regards to the phrase min maxing here. Well, that even varies between different groups! The trouble is, min maxing is a very fuzzy term loaded with emotional baggage. As such, I had to vote the last option. [/QUOTE]

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