my mantra is, if you have fun, then your doing it right !
Sure, there are two broad philosophies when it comes to building characters, optimizing and RP-oriented (which is not to say optimizers don't role play). I don't look down on optimizers, although I might not enjoy playing in a PnP game with some of them, depending on how much they like to role play. As I just mentioned, optimizers can and do role play, but many of them don't because that's not their focus,
