Quote Originally Posted by Verbannon View Post
I would say it sounded like the DM wanted people to build their characters based on rp not mechanics. Except I can't comprehend how Infringing on another player's role, falls into roleplay.
That is certainly what the DM thought as well.

I was playing a non-casting ranger who wielded a bastard sword two handed, had skill focus heal and survival, had levels of paladin despite not being LG, and whose highest scores were in Wis and Cha.

IMO that is almost as far away from making a character based on mechanics as you can get, but the DM sure thought differently.