Recent content by Laurefindel

Whoa, that must have been some wild party...

Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and Star Trek work really well for this. In many cases, breaking canon is canon with all their official alternate universes/timelines/reboots/what-ifs. Star Wars is particularly ripe for breaking canon IMO, almost begging for it really with Star Wars stories going in so...

Two years ago, I started working on a Star Wars RPG using the rules of The One Ring 2e. To avoid necromancy, I'm making a new thread but you can find the original discussions on these forums here. I finally sat down to complete the Starship Creation and Space Combat rules that were missing. If...

I think that a lot of people use « realism » to express « relatability ». They want rules that reflect what they have experienced in the past. Which I think is legitimate, to a certain extent at any case. But realism, for a million reasons that would be to heavy to track in roleplaying games...

If they’re wasting character resources and letting go better feats, they’re not very good optimizers. Min-Maxers will try to get the highest bonus and leave the biggest weaknesses wide open. Oftentimes that is less than optimal. These builds don’t score high on my optimizer scale…

Of course optimisers like puppies! It’s the best way to get chicks! Obviously you have to be selective about your puppy for maximum cuteness and chick-magnetism. And depending on who you’re after, you may want to look into hypoallergenic breeds… As for ice cream, well, there’s a great debate...

I don’t know to what extent this is true, but I always felt that Warhammer had a more European feel, both in the themes and geography of its setting, and in the way it was meant to be played. My experience with European players is almost exclusively from France, but it was clear that their play...

Transcendant Order for me. There’s a time for action and a time for inaction, but there is no idleness. Also, I may have had the hots for Rhys…

The underlaying setting of Blades in the Dark is pretty bleak as well. The sun has vanished. The seas are ink-black but transparent, letting star-like lights shine through, and filled with gargantuan creatures. The soul of the departed no longer go to an afterlife and keep haunting the land...

I remember finding that Wraith: The Oblivion was depressingly bleak. I haven’t read anything about it in years though

But players out to break things and ruin everybody’s fun are not just optimizers; they’re jerks who use optimisation to ruin everybody’s fun. They’re are many ways of being disruptive around the table; this is but one of them. As in all things, accidental jerkiness happens, and perhaps they’re...

I mostly agree with you, with the caveat that between “minor optimisation” and “optimisation before concept” there is a large number of people who optimize “majorly” on wholesome character concepts. I know many (and me among them) that take great pleasure in optimizing concepts that are not...

Whoa there buddy. You’re laying it on pretty thick here.

I know the question wasn’t for me, but from what I’ve seen, nobody is asked to optimize more. Their friends will give them advice instead, often unsolicited, but not always unwelcome. And if the person says ‘no thanks’ and the others keep pushing for optimisation and are being jerks about it...

For sure. We had a few characters optimized for team playing, or for optimizing the party by basing concept on missing roles and skill sets, etc.