Quote Originally Posted by Crake View Post
To be fair, outliers are a problem whether they're ahead or behind. It's one thing if the player doesn't know what they're doing and can be assisted in making a better character that fits the same fantasy, but if you deliberately make a sub-optimal character while everyone else is making reasonable characters, you're the problem in that group.
Look, sometimes you want to play a Dwarf paladin because it sounds fun and there is no reason a dwarf could not become one lorewise, even though their charisma is awful.