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Most systems seem to punish the max-minner by rewarding the min-maxxer; this thread seeks to awright this "problem" without simply reversing it, helping players escape traumatically-restrictive character-design and enjoy embracing more interesting & lively roles & means of play. Games (at least the recreational ones) are supposed to be fun, aren't they?

Childhood is building shallow but powerful characters; adulthood is building deeply flawed characters.

This thread is for the discussion of dabbing on min-maxxing fools by building your play around flavor & fun.

>pic related from recent edhg thread
>thread challenge: build mono white edh deck with pic related as commander

Here's an example of such fun-is-its-own-form-of-winning play from about a decade ago:
>play shadowrun
>shark totem physical adept elf biker gang character hates goblinoids
>on a run
>tasked with guarding kidnapped target
>in back of armored van with kidnapped target
>being chased by trolls
>asian driver remotely closes and locks windows
>this prevents me from shooting trolls
>get angry and manually open back hatch
>shoot at trolls
>trolls shoot back
>submachinegun fire rakes through open hatch
>have no trouble doing the neutron dance dodging bullets thanks to magical physical adept speed and combat sense
>high value kidnapped target not so lucky as his head explodes like a ripe melon
>asian player of asian driver character is like wtf
>rest of group appreciates my in-character fidelity to my played role
>although target is dead
>mission is not complete failure
>because target was not as important
>as the bioengineered virus he was infected with

Let's hear some of your stories of high-fidelity role-playing, and discuss the whole "not-min-maxxing" way of chargen & play. How do you design a system to -- if not reward -- at least encourage such play over min-maxxing?

>inb4 much deserved praise for the incomparable John Lithgow

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