I don’t really have a horse in the race - I am in the middle. I definitely do think about building a proficient character, and what role I want them to fill, and in general try to play decently. At the same time I wouldn’t consider myself a “min-maxer” - I am looking for sensible, effective, “fun” choices, but not heavily weighting one good choice against another.
Thoughts?
It must be directed to the "one-and-done" crowd because - I agree with you that it depends on the game you are playing. I have a roleplaying run scheduled where we are not using any meta gaming, data or otherwise and no min-maxing.
Then we have a tactician run were we will definitely be min-maxing.
