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Min-Max retrospective article
« on: January 05, 2009, 12:55:40 AM »
http://www.critical-hits.com/2007/10/26/min-maxing-in-rpgs-mutually-assured-irrelevance/
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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 07:41:01 PM »

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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 08:30:30 PM »
...Is he even playing the same game as us?

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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 08:38:36 PM »
Bards suck, even with Prcs? I'd whoop his petty VoP monk/cleric/divine fist up and down the court with a straight bard using some variants and feat usage here an there.

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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 09:21:46 PM »
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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2009, 11:47:38 PM »
Bards suck, even with Prcs? I'd whoop his petty VoP monk/cleric/divine fist up and down the court with a straight bard using some variants and feat usage here an there.

Not to mention what you could do with, say, Sublime Chord.

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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2009, 11:52:29 PM »
Bards suck, even with Prcs? I'd whoop his petty VoP monk/cleric/divine fist up and down the court with a straight bard using some variants and feat usage here an there.

Not to mention what you could do with, say, Sublime Chord.

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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2009, 12:35:43 PM »
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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2009, 04:34:19 PM »
This guy and most of the comments are idiots.
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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2009, 11:37:10 AM »
There are layers. The thing is, most people who min-max at all think that they've hit some threshold or capstone. You only need to be a better min-maxer than your group to be 'the best min-maxer,' after all.

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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2009, 11:54:40 AM »
Not to mention that many people wrongly believe min-maxing is just "building a character without regard to RP first and foremost".  So a lot of people that like to just make a character and let its personality come out in play get branded as min-maxers by their group...even if those characters are worse optimized than the roleplay-nazis they are gaming with.

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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2009, 12:52:50 PM »
Fuck, some people seem to think min-maxing means building a character without a retardedly blatant flaw that renders them functionally unplayable. The mute bard continues to mock the selfimportant.

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Re: Min-Max retrospective article
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2009, 08:51:45 AM »
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