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Heck, if you read anything by a lot of the CharOp super maximizers they even say they don't intend to play the characters they make.  They're an exercise in seeing what they can do with the rules.

It happens.  Last WitR one guy at my table never rolled above a 5 except two times during all three parts.  That he was a cleric and wasn't able to give out any bonuses wasn't lost on us.    Good thing he didn't have to roll to hit with Healing Word!

I rolled a nat 1 4x a couple of weekends ago with my Barbarian - 2 of them were Death saves.

So optimization can only reduce the variance, not take it away.

Oct 24, 2009 -- 11:04PM, Eshla wrote:

Aug 4, 2009 -- 7:10AM, Joe_Shill wrote:

I've seen two types of players at LFR, and each type tends to irritate the other.  1) There's the roll player. They build their character to cruise through modules. Skill challenges become a matter of simply rolling more than 3 on the die for whatever the called for skill is. Combat is a matter of applying their well-chosen powers at the least personal risk. The goal in the module is to complete it with max XP and GP.  2) There's the role player. They build their character to fulfill some concept that they visualize. Skill challenges become a place to act out what their character will do in a specific situation, regardless of what the dice come out as. Combat becomes a time to be a hero, or a coward, depending on the role. The goal of the module is to further the character's backstory.  I've played both (and to some extent I still play both, though I'm slowly shifting towards role playing).  The roll players see the role player as a time-wasting distraction, and a potential threat to their XP/GP reward.   The role players see the roll player as little more than automatons on auto-pilot.   Our FLGS table has an almost even division between the two groups, and it's an uneasy truce right now.  (I will admit to having destroyed any hope of winning a skill challenge because I acted in a way consistent with my character, without regard for the consequences to the group. Two other members of the group took it in stride and enjoyed the role playing aspect. Three members were quite upset at the loss of xp for the night. In retrospect, I'm quite certain that I would do exactly the same things over again.)

I can tell you if you role play well groups sometimes will often enjoy it.

I have a lvl 3 Golilath Barbarian that I started a couple weeks ago. The party had alot more fun with the mod we ran then we probuly would have had. Early in the mod I yelled out "Grom No Read." The rest of the mod was so much fun and the party was smiles pretty much the whole mod. Because I started off as the typical Illterate barbarian that often just wanted to smash. Now I could have just said my int. is low so I fail the skill check and things probuly would have been very bland. Instead I roleplayed.  My point is a good roleplayer can set the whole tone of things.