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Assassinfox
2007-04-14, 02:07 PM
What IS it? :smallconfused:

Matthew
2007-04-14, 02:09 PM
In this case, it is the idea that Power Gaming / Optimising and Roleplaying are mutually exclusive.

Ramza00
2007-04-14, 02:21 PM
I believe this was the original thread
http://boards1.wizards.com/showpost.php?p=9165883&postcount=338

Fax Celestis
2007-04-14, 02:25 PM
Hey! Ramza got an avvie!

Ramza00
2007-04-14, 02:32 PM
An avvie? What is an avvie?

Piccamo
2007-04-14, 02:35 PM
Avatar perhaps?

Fax Celestis
2007-04-14, 02:48 PM
Avatar perhaps?

That'd be it.

kamikasei
2007-04-14, 03:00 PM
In brief: the idea that building your character to be mechanically optimal means you're roleplaying poorly, or that building your character to be mechanically suboptimal means you're roleplaying well.

Roland St. Jude
2007-04-14, 03:00 PM
It's an application of the false dilemma fallacy in the gaming context. The link above will tell you more, of course. And @^ that's a good summary.

Ramza00
2007-04-14, 03:06 PM
Avatar perhaps?

That'd be it.

Yes I finally made an avatar, it is a collection of some other Avatars Rich had which I then modified the colors and combine them. It is supposed to be a wizard using greater blink and thus going back and forth between planes.

Fax Celestis
2007-04-14, 03:10 PM
Nice, that.

Indon
2007-04-14, 03:11 PM
It's an application of the false dilemma fallacy in the gaming context. The link above will tell you more, of course. And @^ that's a good summary.

I'd figured it more an assumption that because there's a correlation between powergaming and non-RP, that there's a causal relationship.