Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 4958270" data-attributes="member: 56189">I don't know how you got to here but this couldn't be further from the truth.If I only cared about the mechanical aspect of the game then I would cheese my character out and haunt the CharOp boards, looking for every extra bit of cheese I can possibly squeeze out of the rules.If I only cared about the fluff, then I wouldn't have posted this thread. The character in question that provided the example is a Living Forgotten Realms character I'm building and playing in LFR games at the moment. It has to fit in the Forgotten Realms and more importantly and more pertinent to this discussion, I want it to fit in the Forgotten Realms.I consider myself a powergaming roleplayer. I can't enjoy playing a character unless I can successfully marry both the roleplaying and conceptualisation of the character I have with optimised and min/maxed mechanics.If either is out of whack or, for whatever reason, doesn't 'work', then I don't enjoy the character.So with my character as the example, technically Power of Skill is far better for him than Power of Strength. But there is no way I could ever bring myself to worship any of the current crop of FR gods that have Skill as a domain. It just doesn't suit the character.On the flip side, I feel it's somewhat arbitrary that I can't choose what is an optimal choice for the character simply because the fluff to allow me to do so is absent from the setting.</blockquote>

Verification