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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8281205" data-attributes="member: 18">Whaaaaaaaa?You can be both? Why the heck couldn't you be? That's crazy.I've been playing RPGs not as long as you, for sure, but since 1989, and been talking about them on the internet since 1992-ish (Shadowland.org being where I got started), and all the classic stuff painted power gamers pretty positively, and in contrast the purely negative munchkin. The power gamers at your table can be managed, directed, and a force for good. Whereas a munchkin will just wreck your game. Most of the sites I've posted on about RPGs it hasn't been an insult, and certainly hasn't been exclusive with role-playing.Plus, let's be real, I am a power-gamer. I always design my characters to be as mechanically effective as possible. Not to be spotlight-stealing, or making things boring - I often pick support or indirect roles, or ones other people aren't covering, but I sure as hell make sure my PC is as good as they possibly can be w/o losing the concept (and you rarely lose the concept). But I'm also a role-player, as a player or a DM. The idea that there's a contradiction seems like utter madness to me.As an aside, epithet is also a neutral word - it merely means a word that describes a quality someone possesses. So "power-gamer" is used as an epithet, absolutely, but so is "role-player" or "god-tier" regarding how good a DM is or the like.</blockquote>