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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9821059" data-attributes="member: 7006">Ding!For some reason in the conversations regarding what martial and caster characters can and can't do... the ability of the players to come up with ideas gets discounted.  People talk about how Fighters can't "change the campaign" like Wizards can-- which maybe might be true "in-world" based on narratively what spells can and can't accomplish... but the Fighter player has just as much agency and ability to come up with campaign-altering ideas at the table as anyone else.  The Fighter player can just say "Hey Bob!  Why don't you have your Marko The Magnificent do X, Y, and Z to get us out of this situation?"  At which point Bob says "Good idea!" and then tells the DM that Marko The Magnificent does X, Y, and Z.  The Fighter player solved the problem, got to use their noggin to come up with something cool, saw their cool thing actually work... but yet somehow some people think that "doesn't count" for the Fighter player because it wasn't their PC specifically that did it.To me, that's just silly.  Yeah, I have my PC and the other players have their PCs... but I've always felt that all of us are actually just working together as part of a group, and that we all can and should be throwing out ideas for what all the characters can be doing, as though we all control all of them together.  And thus it doesn't actually matter if it was "my PC" that accomplished "in-game" whatever it was I came up with... I was still the one who came up with the idea.</blockquote>

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