Combat and Role Play, Mutually Exclusive?

[Mushroom Ninja]

The Stormwind Fallacy is basically an optimizer's defense against traditional roleplaying. It tries to make the claim that you can 'build' your character in anyway that you want, take whatever classes, skills, feats, prestige classes, etc, etc, and that those choices will have no effect on your ability to roleplay. The only way that it is correct is when you redefine what roleplaying is.

I don't know about anyone else, but my character's class, skills, and most feats do not affect how I roleplay the character. Why is it that making an optimized character means that you can't roleplay the character?

Edit: ninja'd