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Then we would call them dragontharks.

Yeah you'd need a special trait to attack with extra limbs beyond the first, like Multiattack. So it really comes down to being able to...

2e Red Dragons: "our AC goes to -11!"

Just wait until 7e, when Wizards add "spell effects" to weapon attacks and can only use so many "spell effects" before they have to take...

Or people who have to be "right" or "wrong" concerning how they use words.

Bespoke.

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

A few years ago, one of my players wanted to play a dragonborn. He wanted it to have a bite attack, and a tail attack, and two claws...

"Agency" or "Railroad" = 90 page EN thread.

Grimdark.

I immediately thought of this, and I really liked their implementation. 4e Skill Powers a bit less so, since, as far as I can recall...

3.5e had "tricks" or something similar that was introduced in some book like Complete Scroundrel. So that's where my thinking sort of...

Fair. I still don't like it though, since to whom the language is natural for is undefined, and can be interpreted in multiple ways.

I always found the "everyone is a spellcaster in 4e" to be a bit odd. Last I checked, before 4e, casters didn't have at-will spells...

"Vancian" to describe any magic system that puts a limit on how different many spells one can use (I prefer "Zelaznian" anyways)...