Stormwind Fallacy

[Assassinfox]

What IS it?

[Matthew]

In this case, it is the idea that Power Gaming / Optimising and Roleplaying are mutually exclusive.

[Ramza00]

I believe this was the original thread
http://boards1.wizards.com/showpost....&postcount=338

[Fax Celestis]

Hey! Ramza got an avvie!

[Ramza00]

An avvie? What is an avvie?

[Piccamo]

Avatar perhaps?

[Fax Celestis]

Avatar perhaps?

That'd be it.

[kamikasei]

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]

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]

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]

Nice, that.

[Indon]

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.