I am constantly surprised by people's devotion to the written text in rules books. Descriptions of abilities are taken verbatim and if there is a lack of description, that too is considered as 'how it is'.
For me, I barely pay attention to such things. In fact, I doubt I've read more than a handful of 4e power descriptions. The same goes for monster stats. I reskin them all the time as whatever I feel is suitable for the encounter. Magical items get the same treatment. If someone wants a spear to look like a sword, then as long as the stats remain the same and the rules are balanced, who cares what it looks like?
Hell, I barely even pay attention to my character's stats. To me, they're a means to an end. They facilitate the mechanics of combat and that's where their influence, for me, ends. One example is a drow sorcerer I play in a weekly game. He has a 21 Charisma but there is no way in Hell or the Abyss that I roleplay him as such.
He's a cocky smart-arse with borderline psychopathic tendencies and I roleplay him as such. I try to make sure this never makes the game unfun for anyone so there are social limits to what I will do in game with him, but at the end of the day, I don't really enslave myself to his stats.
So I was wondering whether I was in the majority or minority of people who refluff just about anything and everything, or who stick to what's written.
For me, I barely pay attention to such things. In fact, I doubt I've read more than a handful of 4e power descriptions. The same goes for monster stats. I reskin them all the time as whatever I feel is suitable for the encounter. Magical items get the same treatment. If someone wants a spear to look like a sword, then as long as the stats remain the same and the rules are balanced, who cares what it looks like?
Hell, I barely even pay attention to my character's stats. To me, they're a means to an end. They facilitate the mechanics of combat and that's where their influence, for me, ends. One example is a drow sorcerer I play in a weekly game. He has a 21 Charisma but there is no way in Hell or the Abyss that I roleplay him as such.
He's a cocky smart-arse with borderline psychopathic tendencies and I roleplay him as such. I try to make sure this never makes the game unfun for anyone so there are social limits to what I will do in game with him, but at the end of the day, I don't really enslave myself to his stats.
So I was wondering whether I was in the majority or minority of people who refluff just about anything and everything, or who stick to what's written.
