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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 188917" data-attributes="member: 4036">Not personally, just people in general who tend to make educated decisions in spending their rewards in the interest of preserving the lives of their characters which happens to include me and a lot of people I know and respect.Generally people on this board are very lenient, but I was feeling a little anger management problem building after some time forcedly spent on another board where leniency is not in existance.  Then I came "home" (I wub EN Boards!) and found I ("we", really) was being decried here indirectly.Rather than flame the guy who has a right to his opinion, I vented here and tried to make my case.  Sorry for the rant but it made me feel better and hopefully spared the other guy's feelings.I think I agree with you?  If that says what I think it says, that is..But the main point of the post wasn't defending any one style of gaming over another but rather defending everyone's right to play whichever style they like without being bashed by someone else who's opinion of what's fun and what's not is different.Whatever makes it most enjoyable to you!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  For instance I have an elven archer that is absolutely lethal.  He is a psychic warrior/deepwood sniper who happens to have boots of striding and springing and two psionic powers related to speed: skate and burst.  Rather than saying he skates along the ground like a figure skater, I mentally imagine and then describe him summoning a path of solid green energy in a 5' wide straight line in front of him, followed by a burst of green energy that propells him along it.  As he sprints along he looks something like a green fireball with him in the middle of it.  Why do I describe it like that?Because otherwise someone using the run action to move at 360' might knock you out of the cinema of a combat and into the "Hey!  You can't do that!" mentality.  D&D 3e is all about what you can do.  Anything can be done, it's just a matter of difficulty and imagination.  Instead of telling you you can't do something, it tells you exactly how difficult it is to manage and within what limits.So if you want to use a kaoken eruption of energy to simulate the effect a divine power or righteous might spell has, or a kamehameha wave to simulate the intense blast of a high-level searing light spell in your mind, do it!  You'll have a big stupid grin on your face that shouts to the world how much fun you are having and will encourage your friends to do the same.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I love drawing upon anime when I imagine things, that and Marvel (the green path for skate came from Iceman <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=";)" />).  It helps me visualize the physically impossible and reminds me that D&D is not reality.  D&D is my escape from reality and my hobby.  It's a game I play for fun.  Both media are also very visual which helps immensly in a largely aural game.Eek.  I'm gonna tank this thread rambling like this.  I'll shut up now.  Um..  Let's see, witty yet wise closing statement/saying...Uh...How about..  Confucious say, "If you walk a mile in another man's shoes, then you are a mile away with his shoes."</blockquote>

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