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Welcome back. In this week’s episode, we (attempt to) delve into a very common subject in the role-playing game world – Powergaming vs. Roleplaying.
Powergaming vs. Roleplaying – Ep2
Running Time – 32:21
00:00 Intro
00:28 Topic Revealed: Powergaming vs. Roleplaying
00:46 TANGENT: In what other games can you find powergamers?
01:18 TANGENT: Were we always nerds? (yes)
02:22 Back on Topic
06:40 TANGENT: Lament for the Professor
08:03 Back on Topic
10:32 TANGENT: Jayson’s Brown Nose Issue
10:46 Back on Topic
15:16 TANGENT: Suppository Potions
16:16 Back on Topic
18:06 TANGENT: What about Brother Pickles?
19:19 TANGENT: Favorite Role-playing Moments
26-45 Back on Topic
27:59 TANGENT: Mike’s Most Memorable Conan Character
28:16 TANGENT: Mark’s Favorite Roleplayed Characters & Character Backgrounds
30:41 TANGENT: Adventure Paths
31:55 Outro
OFFICIAL TANGENT COUNT: 10
Games Discussed:
Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Hero System, Conan RPG, Magic the Gathering, Warhammer 40K.
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Its interesting now that in 4E they introduced skill challenges, which in a way lets you power game your role play. Since you can bump up all of your skills to make the non-combat challenges much easier. I’ve yet to see anyone actually do that yet, though the pacifist cleric build was the closest I’ve seen to that.
I would think that at some point some character’s role becomes the combat expert. At some point you need someone to make sure you survive the combats coming at you, so power-game choices need to be made. So the two aren’t mutually exclusive, its just hard to have the whole party use power builds and be able to easily work through non-combat situations.
I’ve noticed there’s quite a lot of power gaming in 40k, though I don’t think a lot of 40k players would agree though!