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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6233773" data-attributes="member: 17106">Well, there's a balance here. The human mind is only so creative. By your logic, would simply resolving all actions by rolling a d20 and having them succeed on a result of 10 or higher not encourage imagination? Ignore all those rules. Seems like it would.Thing is, limitations breed creativity. To me, the limitations worth talking about are the ones that enforce a sense of real physical laws or the ones that keep PCs from becoming too powerful in the game, because they serve some concrete purpose, and give players a framework to imagine around. Too many of those limits, and players' imaginations are constrained. Too few, and the game is so vague it's difficult for the players to connect to it (and thus come up with anything).Conversely, a daily use limitation (like a healing surge) doesn't serve any concrete purpose that I've ever made made aware of. It's simply a limitation for the sake of limitations. Not helpful.First time I've ever heard D&D compared to surreal art.</blockquote>