I've been playing D&D for something like seven years now, and am fairly familiar with the 3.5 races, feats, and classes. Recently, I was talking with one of the other gamers in my group (I'm a player, not the DM) about a character I was thinking of running, and she accused me of being a power gamer and min-maxing. We play in FR, and I was thinking of playing a sun elven evoker/fighter and eventaully get the Bladesinger PrC. Bladesingers eventually get the ability to ignore spell failure in heavier armors, so I was going to see if I couldn't get mithril breastplate since it's decent armor. I was also planning to get a few of the new sudden metamagic feats out of the Complete Aracane. While I thought I was simply utilizing the race, class and feat combination, my friend thought I was power gaming and min-maxing, which is something I REALLY don't want to do. I just thought I'd ask everyone else's opinion on it: when does utilizing the rules change into power gaming and min-maxing?