You know, This Troper has been thinking. This character type can be very annoying, but I think it's because, well...it's apparent that the munchkin doesn't care much about the other players.

They take all the fun bits (mostly the combat) away from them and disregard the other bits (the Roleplay) of the game, making everyone else feel bad and make the Game Master feel like his coming up with the story (which could very well be heavy on Rail Roading or not) feel like he's sort of pointless.

I think it'd be better for people who want to play like this to try to play more a long the lines of a more withdrawn character, who doesn't kill the other Players targets (unless they honestly need help)thus getting along better with The Real Man and not interacting with the story beyond the occasional Yay/Nay, thus ensuring that The Role Player has something to do.

Thoughts?

Clarification on the Order Of The Stick entry: the half-ogre's tactic is illegal on several fronts:

1) While the Combat Reflexes feat does enable the character to make multiple attacks of opportunity per round, a character moving out of threatened squares never provokes more than a single attack of opportunity from each threatening character, regardless of how many threatened squares they leave during their action. So the half-ogre can't actually get any bonus attacks of opportunity against Roy.

2) The half-ogre's use of Spring Attack won't prevent Roy from making an attack of opportunity against it. A 5-foot step does not provoke attacks of opportunity, but a 5-foot step is a distinct action, taken in a turn where a character is taking no other movement (apart from move-equivalent action). So splitting 5 feet of a normal move off from the rest of the movement does not qualify as a 5-foot step, and Roy gets an attack of opportunity.

Could someone explain why it's called a Munchkin? Inquiring non-gamers might want to know.

Why exactly is Acquisitions Incorporated listed as munchkins? They were given pre-generated characters for the first podcast, so they didn't min/max. The lack of RP in the first podcast was due to the concept behind the first one being promoting the then-new 4th Edition rules and adventure Keep on the Shadowfell. The second, third, and fourth sessions all had a lot of RP. Let's break it down by character.

Jim Darkmagic is an awesome character. He's not especially powerful for a wizard, but Mike's lucky rolls made him overly confident and tall tales have grown around him ("You're not Jim Darkmagic! Jim Darkmagic is seven feet tall!")

Omindran is the Leader and acts like it more than any other cleric/warlord/shaman/bard I've seen. He actually plays his role as CEO and a lot of his powers are specifically designed around the concept of aiding his "employees" (the other party members) including blowing a feat to get multiclass training just to get an additional Encounter power heal.

Binwin Bronzebottom is the closest thing to a min/maxer in the game, especially in the 3rd podcast season and the special at PAX with the build made for bonuses to charging. However, in the 3rd podcast, he specifically stayed in character with his motivations. He asked the ghost "Where do I find Citrine Ambershard?", which fits the character as he wanted her dead in revenged for what she did to his father. He specifically did not ask "Where is all the treasure?" like the other characters told him to.

Aeofel is decidedly not min/maxed and is in fact a pretty crappy Avenger build in terms of optimization. In the 3rd podcast, he stayed very much in character rather than metagame to his detriment.

I was sorely tempted to edit the page with a "YMMV", but I thought I'd ask on here first what the reasoning was behind putting them as an example first because I flat-out don't see it.