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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5307437" data-attributes="member: 82106">I'm happy enough to have the character use his abilities. I still would like the player to exercise some creativity. As I said before, if the player is going to explain his amazing feat of awesomeness then he's very welcome to it. Honestly this is not actually anything out of the ordinary in terms of what is ALWAYS done in a game. You don't just have the player say "Yeah, I'm awesome so I'm at the top of that wall." He has to EXPLAIN how he can get to the top of that wall. Maybe not to the very last detail of how he climbed it, but he's going to need to explain how his abilities interact with the world to produce the result he wants at SOME level.Now, you can simply hand wave and say "yeah, SOMEHOW my grabby fighter grabs the swarm" and that is a sort of general explanation but it doesn't actually address the specifics of the situation at hand. Sometimes there are problems to be overcome in the course of using your character's abilities. I don't think it is outside of the intent of the design of the game AT ALL that you come up with an explanation that deals with those challenges. Honestly, all the game does is give you a toolbox of some size with which to deal with challenges. You still have to apply it. The rules provide general guidelines for how the mechanics of that works, not absolute license to do anything just because no rule says 'no'. It is up to the DM not to actively thwart the players too much, but he can and should give them problems to solve, and grabbing a swarm is a problem that Mr Grabby Fighter is just going to have to solve. If he doesn't, well big deal, the rest of the party can handle it. If they can't then they're in over their heads or the DM needs to look at the difficulty levels of the challenges, or maybe it's a sandbox where that kind of thing is expected.</blockquote>

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