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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shurai" data-source="post: 3499211">I actually think the hypothesis you've attacked is partially correct, if you consider the finiteness of time people have to devote to the hobby.  Past a certain threshold, I'd say it's clear that time spent improving the character's numerical performance can't be concurrently spent on exploring the character's, well, character.I've experienced this personally, at the gaming table:  At character creation I start to obsess over this or that choice of feats or magic items, then realize I don't even know the guy's name or where he's from or what color his hair is.  I can spend twice as long to both powergame and characterize, but then I start to have less fun per unit time.What is wrong with my personal experience such that it's incorrectly causing me to disprove the fallacy?  This isn't rhetoric, I really want to know what I'm doing wrong.</blockquote>