>i am the most basic b***h of basic b***h trolls >i have noticed what is the most popular thing on a board, so i must constantly b***h about it at every opportunity
This has been a thing for literal decades, you're just a moron who has apparently never looked at other popular systems like vampire the masquerade, shadowrun, or numerous others.
What is point buy but setting your stats to what suits you (within reason)? Depending on the system you could literally spend all your points to max out your stats if you really want - at least a few editions of shadowrun give you more than enough points to do so.
>Everyone chooses to play a character with maxed out stats and 100% in EVERY skill.
Where is the challenge in this? Where is the drive for self improvement? Why even play?
This reminds me of a player who always minmax his characters for combat. He does not like combat, rather enjoying roleplaying, building a story together with everyone and exploring the world around him.
His reasoning: "If I can defeat challenges easier, we can all do more roleplay time"
Which is a fair reasoning, but not every game is filled with combat scenes and some only use those for important events. Kinda kills the mood.
I remember once he complaining his character sheet was useless 'cause all his character's physical-aspect wasn't used at all and all game was solely roleplaying. Which is well... Contradictory with his own reasoning.
One if my friends is like this, and it seems to be some weird cognitive dissonance. He zones out during most combats, never really does much in them, and forgets like 90% of his abilities, despite this he always insist on making his character as strong as possible
OP is not talking about point buy, OP means literally setting all your stats to whatever you want and invalidating the whole game.
Seems like it serves as a good filter for the sort of people who, when told to pick stats that fit the sort of character they want to play, decide to just max out everything and then complain that the game isn't going to be challenging.
Most kids age 10-16 try and discover that having perfect stats in a game doesn't magically make the gameplay experience perfect.
Who are you quoting? Its like an even more tepid forge idea.
Because most people hinge on D&D and choose to suffer instead of making their own fricking game however they want.
it really took me a whole decade to understand its all make believe and the rulebooks can just be bumper rails
>i am the most basic b***h of basic b***h trolls
>i have noticed what is the most popular thing on a board, so i must constantly b***h about it at every opportunity
>D&D is the most popular game
Not really.
>stats
Just draw two cards from the tarot deck and those are your character traits.
This has been a thing for literal decades, you're just a moron who has apparently never looked at other popular systems like vampire the masquerade, shadowrun, or numerous others.
OP is not talking about point buy, OP means literally setting all your stats to whatever you want and invalidating the whole game.
I thought the same but Cortex can actually do this.
What is point buy but setting your stats to what suits you (within reason)? Depending on the system you could literally spend all your points to max out your stats if you really want - at least a few editions of shadowrun give you more than enough points to do so.
I dont think you understand what he means.
But I think it’s reasonable that I max out every stat
>Everyone chooses to play a character with maxed out stats and 100% in EVERY skill.
Where is the challenge in this? Where is the drive for self improvement? Why even play?
>Why even play?
Obviously if someone chooses OP stats it's because they enjoy the higher degree of power fantasy
This reminds me of a player who always minmax his characters for combat. He does not like combat, rather enjoying roleplaying, building a story together with everyone and exploring the world around him.
His reasoning: "If I can defeat challenges easier, we can all do more roleplay time"
Which is a fair reasoning, but not every game is filled with combat scenes and some only use those for important events. Kinda kills the mood.
I remember once he complaining his character sheet was useless 'cause all his character's physical-aspect wasn't used at all and all game was solely roleplaying. Which is well... Contradictory with his own reasoning.
One if my friends is like this, and it seems to be some weird cognitive dissonance. He zones out during most combats, never really does much in them, and forgets like 90% of his abilities, despite this he always insist on making his character as strong as possible
making characters is fun. playing games is utterly dreadful.
Seems like it serves as a good filter for the sort of people who, when told to pick stats that fit the sort of character they want to play, decide to just max out everything and then complain that the game isn't going to be challenging.
>Where is the drive for self improvement? Why even play?
Yeah my games aren't really about that.
yeah we know, your games are about being boring garbage that nobody plays
Your games aren't about playing?
Elaborate?
Most kids age 10-16 try and discover that having perfect stats in a game doesn't magically make the gameplay experience perfect.
Who are you quoting? Its like an even more tepid forge idea.
That's literally the equivalent of declaring you won the game instead of playing the game and winning for real.