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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5587536" data-attributes="member: 87792">I'm going to show the other side of the coin.&nbsp;If you aren't powergaming in character in D&amp;D unless you have a good reason you aren't roleplaying.&nbsp;What do I mean by powergaming in character?&nbsp; In character, you do not have control of your attributes.&nbsp; You do not have control of your race.&nbsp; You have ... limited control of your class.&nbsp; But you do have significant control over your items, the contents of your spellbook, and your tactics.And you are also involved in life and death struggles.&nbsp; To not try to weight the odds of survival in your favour is to declare that you don't care whether you live or die, or that the odds are so stacked in your favour that you have it too easy.&nbsp; And one of the best ways of weighting the odds of survival in your favour is with the best equipment and magic you can get your hands on.&nbsp; (Note that best is subjective - are you going for raw power, cost/benefit ratio, defence, nova potential, or what?)&nbsp; And getting the best spell book you can or equipment best suited to you, and using it to render the enemy dead or otherwise irrelevant as effortlessly as possible is absolutely power gaming.&nbsp; It is also roleplaying an adventurer - you can't disentangle the two.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 5587536, member: 87792"] I'm going to show the other side of the coin. [B]If you aren't powergaming in character in D&D unless you have a good reason you aren't roleplaying.[/B] What do I mean by powergaming in character? In character, you do not have control of your attributes. You do not have control of your race. You have ... limited control of your class. But you do have significant control over your items, the contents of your spellbook, and your tactics. And you are also involved in life and death struggles. To not try to weight the odds of survival in your favour is to declare that you don't care whether you live or die, or that the odds are so stacked in your favour that you have it too easy. And one of the best ways of weighting the odds of survival in your favour is with the best equipment and magic you can get your hands on. (Note that best is subjective - are you going for raw power, cost/benefit ratio, defence, nova potential, or what?) And getting the best spell book you can or equipment best suited to you, and using it to render the enemy dead or otherwise irrelevant as effortlessly as possible is absolutely power gaming. It is also roleplaying an adventurer - you can't disentangle the two. [/QUOTE]

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