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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5510888" data-attributes="member: 42582">Well, that's only one way of approaching the game and the characterisation of one's PC. Not all PCs are conceived of in this way.This approach to optimisation-as-roleplaying also presupposes that a player's build choices correspond to a PC's personal development choices. But that is by no means a given. At least some people take the view that a player's build choices happen to a significant extent in the metagame (eg I may choose weapon proficiencies XYZ for my PC not because the PC made those choices, but because circumstances brought it about that that's what my PC knows about; I may choose spells ABC for my PC on level up not because these are the spells my wizard opted to borrow from the guild library, but because these are the spells that my wizard's patron - or perhaps his/her fevered brain - wrote down in the spellbook).I think 4e retraining, for example, only makes sense if we assume (i) that a character sheet is nothing like a total description of the PC in question, and (ii) that build choices are at least to some singificant extent choices made by a player to highlight some or other feature of the PC as a character (ie metagame choices), rather than choices made in the gameworld by that character.</blockquote>