Roleplaying is when I calculate on my phone if power attack is optimal, and the more I calculate on my phone the more roleplaying it is
The PTWD in the bottom left corner stands for "Party Til We Die comic". Art style was inspired by Kelly comic, of course.
This is the artist page. https://www.instagram.com/party.comic/
I want to tag myself, but i'm everybody in that picture besides Gygax and the DM
A good DM will either scale up the difficulty of encounters to compensate for the min-maxers, or know the weaknesses of min-maxed PCs and hit them there (a min-maxed DPS PC often is very vulnerable to will saves, or to various forms of crowd control, or flying enemies, or something)
Frankly a good DM will take the min-maxer aside and ask them to tone it down because you want to have everybody operating at about the same level.
True, it’s going to be inherently very difficult to all have fun playing the same table when all the players are essentially playing different games. Some of the most fun D&D I have played with a group full of min-maxers and extremely difficult overtuned encounters. I’ve also had a lot of fun playing RP heavy, less combat focused campaigns. It’s difficult to mix, all the players kind of need to be on the same page/skill level
Rogue players when it comes to anything but auto attacking: :walter-shock:
I mean, there are literally spells for each of those things. I forget the name, but some dude has a detailed guide to how to make a wizard perform literally any party role - often better than the actual other classes can do.
The classic one was "The Batman Wizard", but that was 3.5 era and the conclusion that you always end up coming to is "the wizard can do anything the rest of the party can - for about five minutes per day."
papa when I die will I go to Our Lord's Waifu Pillow Emporium in the Sky?
