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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beginning of the End" data-source="post: 5051381" data-attributes="member: 55271">I think you're over-reacting.There are two ways to re-skin something:(1) It's the same thing, it just looks different. For example, in my campaign spellcasters tend to customize their magic missiles -- one might juggle golden balls of energy and then hurl them; another might send bolts of energy lancing from his fingers; another might shoot beams from his eyes; and so forth.But these are all still magic missiles; succeed on a Spellcraft check and you'll recognize it as such.Suggesting that this causes the world to become "chaotic and disorganized" is like claiming that the real world is "chaotic and disorganized" because some of us drive Fords and some of us drive Chevys. They're all trucks.(2) It's not the same thing, but it uses the same stats (or slightly tweaked stats).This, too, is hardly the end of the universe. I might stat up a golf cart by taking the stats for a riding lawnmower and removing the "mow grass" special ability. None of us consider the world fundamentally incomprehensible because there's more than one type of four-wheeled vehicle with a top speed of 20 mph.Similarly, I don't think the PCs will be lost in a world of madness if somebody has developed a spell that works exactly like magic missile but uses a knife as an arcane focus.Your belief that "everything that gives a +2 bonus to Strength needs to be the exact same thing or the universe doesn't make sense" is, frankly, incomprehensible to me.</blockquote>

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