Come on, Cory, drop the tough guy act and embrace the tough guy act. I mean, stop pretending you're the strong, silent type and start pretending you're the strong, silent type. Crap, what I mean is, only caring about optimizing your character build isn't nearly as fun as playing a character who is all about perfecting his craft... by... optimizing his build, I guess...

In the end, it's all about finding the in-game justification for playing the way you were going to play anyway.

He is roleplaying, though. Zoro's an asshole.

So, wait, is Zoro roleplaying Cory then?

Cause at a D&D table with friends, everyones something of an asshole to the other.

Aye. Dunno about Pathfinder, but one of the RPG's I played had, among their version of "Flaws", a trait called "Obsession". It is what it sounds like; whatever you select as the object of your Obsession, you prioritize it to ridiculous degrees.

Now, barring really specific circumstances, it didn't provide any bonuses... but as it was from a point-build system, you received Character Points back to spend elsewhere; if you wanted your Obsession to do something positive, you just needed to invest wisely. :) If it wasn't supposed to be a "positive thing".

Once in a not serious game I played an Old Black Dragon with an obsession with textiles. Ended up accidentallying an industrial revolution due to his desire for dragon sized blankets.

The apocalypse was thwarted by wooly socks.

That’s why most of my characters are sociopaths. If I’m going to act like an insane murderhobo anyways I might as well not pretend to have a moral compass.