Nintaku:
But one of my basic principles as GM is to always look for ways to make the players' characters look like badasses. Even when they're having the tables turned on them. /Especially/ then. (The more awesome their opponents, the more awesome the players will feel when they come out on top.)
Amen to that! However...
Nintaku:
But yeah, min/maxing with SW is really easy and in fact expected explicitly. Put a bunch of points in one or two areas you're really good, dump a lot of other areas, and don't dump any of those precious Attributes.
That's not min-maxing. That's building a specialist, a character that is very good at one thing to the point where it might be the only thing he's really useful at.
Min-Maxing, to me, only occurs on the meta-level, when a player
specifically builds a character by searching for
loopholes in the roles to
exploit them and/or to counter the most common NPCs/monsters he knows he's going to encounter.
That's not a barbarian armed with a stone battle axe, rolling d12 for fighting, and an insane amount of damage due to his high strength, heavy weapon and the No mercy edge.
It's more the barbarian who comes down the mountain with not one but *two* nicely engraved rapiers and a plate armor helmet as well as an arcane resistance background hindrance. You know, clearly created with a different mindset than the axe-wielder.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:28, Sat 14 Mar 2015.