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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7371554" data-attributes="member: 20564">I can dig it.  That's not everyone's comfort zone.  For me, it's all describing imaginary things anyhow.  Just this morning I was working out a character personality for a porter who is under a were- like curse.  Mechanically, it's straight barbarian, but I was planning on describing bestial transformations to his humanoid body when he raged, as well as personality changes to take him from well-meaning bumbler to aggressive CEO, which would also flavor his personality during the moon phases.  Working out a real pathos for the character -- cursed but still trying to do good even though his previous life is in shambles.  Would have it come out fairly early that he left behind his wife and young daughter for their own good.  Imply he was afraid of spreading the curse to them, but once that was established have it leak that he raged out and almost hit his girl when she play-ambushed him during the full moon, and he fled because he didn't know if he would always be able to stop himself.  Play up that mingled horror-disgust that he feels for himself deep down and work out a path to redemption.All of that, just riffing off describing the barbarian's mechanics differently.  That's why I see descriptions of mechanics as tools, not as etched-in-steel.</blockquote>