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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3454781" data-attributes="member: 2067">Nice post. I think this is a great example of how a player can work creatively within the artificial bounds created by a DM who is more constraining. The scene doesn't change, it always depicts the same thing, it's familiar and everyone knows how it's "supposed" to look, but a good artist isn't limited by what they're told to constrain themselves to. In the same way a creative DM knows to work within the commonly understood rules without limiting their creativity, a creative player looks at the limitations and seeks a subtle way of saying it.Thinking about it, it's also a great example of what Hussar did in explaining the warforged ninja. He had a limitation of "7th sea game" and he used that to develop a compelling background for the character that made it seem like it really belonged. He creatively fit it into the universe. That's part of why I'd easily allow it.But some DM's would rather change the rules to suit their purposes than be forced to work within inadequate rules, and some players would rather play the character in their heads than the character they're told to play. Just like biblical scenes eventually got old and stale and unpopular, so to do the constraints of a certain DM's "vision" or a certain game's rules. Eventually, people wanted to draw expressionism and cubism and absurdism and pop, not Renaissance art, and eventually people are going to want to play Warforged Ninjas and not pirates. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But, as Hussar has shown, creativity can be used to give cogent voice to unfettered fancy (if, indeed, "warforged ninja" can even be said to be unfettered fancy). There's not very much creative about running characters just like Conan through adventures just like Conan had, but there's quite a lot of creativity in seeing how a creature like Data from Star Trek could have found contact with Conan, and in seeing how each would react to each other, and, effectively, playing those roles in ways they've never been played before...I wonder if the opposite is true, too. That some people confuse creativity with re-telling stories that were creative the first time they were told, but become progressively less so. In a game as bullet-riddled with archetype as D&D is, I'd think that would be the greater risk.</blockquote>

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