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Why play pen-and-paper games rather than computer games if you're more interested in combat rather than roleplaying? Pen-and-paper combat is tedious and feels like work when compared to computer-game combat. I see it as a necessary evil in a roleplaying campaign; I'm not sure why someone would want it for its own sake when computer games exist.
(Edit: just to be clear, I'm not trying to tell other people what they're allowed to like. I love character optimization myself - I'm the kind of guy who used to be obsessed with planning my Path of Exile skill tree. I just don't understand why some people do that sort of gaming the old-fashioned way when they could do it on a computer.)
Because I do want some element of roleplay, I'm not solely interested in the combat, but my ideal campaign is one where I'm not really changing my personality much or at all to play a character
I think you can get a lot more entertaining stories when they're spontaneous like D&D is, games are fun but they very much don't feel alive in the way D&D does
I see... I think my confusion comes from the fact that I consider what you're doing to be roleplaying too. "My character is pretty much me except that he's also a barbarian warrior" is IMO perfectly legitimate as a character background and I wouldn't call it "lower roleplay focused" as long as you're still interested in actually engaging with the fantasy world and telling a story.