My friend, this is Call of Cthulhu, where "OP" means you die two sessions after the rest.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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OP in Call of Cthulhu is just Mr. Magoo.
You can't break a sand pit. You can try, but all you'll do is throw sand around, and then you won't have a sand pit to play around in. Plus, you'll just piss people off with all the sand you've been throwing. I hear it gets everywhere.
That's such a fantastic metaphor.
Hm. Haven't played in a LONG while. Are there still people that play Roleplay games with the objective to win? (or their own consideration of 'winning') and now I can't stop imagining Charlie Sheen playing a minimax character.
Are there still people that play Roleplay games with the objective to win?
There are definitely storypaths and modules that are explicitly designed to challenge your ability to not-die.
You've got the Tomb of Horrors from classic D&D and it's Pathfinder peer Rappan Athuk from pathfinder. Having played Rappan Athuk, I'll say that the style of the dungeon is "unforgiving" to say the least. It effectively exists to either kill you outright or suck you in deeper, where the challenges grow exponentially more difficult. The designers have done their own rules-bending and system-exploiting such that min-maxed players are on even footing. By the end, you're squaring off against nigh-impossible to kill elder gods using whatever spare gum and twine still remains in your inventory.
In these kinds of games, you're tacitly encouraged to build characters that are cracked out (or, at least, bands of blissfully naive heroes who will die in an absurdly entertaining fashion). In this case, the RPG plays more like a Beat The Boss board game than a storytime adventure.
Don't challenge the person with infinite power
haha joke's on you, we're playing pathfinder, so nothing is op! (do not talk to me about wrestling i have an allergy to them)
PF2E?
I've only played PF1E and you can definitely make some broken stuff, but that's kinda the fun part of PF1E. If you take fucking sacred geometry you suck, though. And nobody wants to get out the flow chart for grappling.