D&D General Do people like re-skinning?

Some Hexblade Blade Locks I've played/ tinkered with:
  • A Drow 'Sword Dancer' of Elistraee. Patron refluffed to Elistraee, weapon re-fluffed to Moonsword. The curse is reflavored to 'Blade focus.'
  • A Gold Elf Hexblade [Moonblade scion] - his patron and pact weapon is his own families Moonblade which grows in power as he does (gaining thirsting blade, improved pact weapon, eldritch smite etc). The 6th level Spectre abilitiy is simply re-fluffed as the Elfshadow ability common to Moonblades.
  • A Gith 'Antipaladin'. Patron refluffed to the Lich Queen, and weapon re-fluffed to a Silver Sword.
That's some top notch stuff and one of the main reasons why I love the Warlock and Patron stuff you can do with Hexblade.

Dragonfire Adept from 3.5 is basically a Warlock whose Patron is a Dragon: so you can refluff The Fiend Patron as that.
 

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Hold up. I think we might have different ideas of what reskinning means. In my book, a fireball that does cold damage isn’t a reskin, because fireball does fire damage. That’s either a rules change or a new spell that is very similar to fireball. You can’t reskin a rapier as a versatile weapon because it isn’t. You could reskin a versatile weapon as a rapier, but I can’t imagine why you would want to, since rapiers already exist without reskinning and also versatile would be a weird property to want on a rapier anyway.

Like... As I understand it, reskinning is just taking one set of mechanics and naming/describing it a different way than it was written. I guess changing the damage type of a spell is a gray area since most of the time damage type just amounts to description, but since it can make a difference for damage resistances and vulnerabilities, I would argue it’s just over the line of what I would call reskinning.
I'd say damage type changing is the limit to what I'd consider re-skinning. And I wouldn't reskin to force damage or something. It'd also act as it's own spell so you can't have both fireball and Ice Explosion unless you use 2 spells known.
 

I'd say damage type changing is the limit to what I'd consider re-skinning. And I wouldn't reskin to force damage or something. It'd also act as it's own spell so you can't have both fireball and Ice Explosion unless you use 2 spells known.
Snowball would be the Ice version of Fireball. Does the same damage, range, and level as Fireball with the only difference being it's ice instead of fire.
 




Sounds lit. Would let you do it.
I think it sounds a lot cooler than the original. (y)

This is the difference between DM reskinning, that can change actual rules, and the kind of mechanics-neutral refluffing that players can do without oversight. I tend to call both 'reskinning' unless there are significant rules changes involved.
 

This is the difference between DM reskinning, that can change actual rules, and the kind of mechanics-neutral refluffing that players can do without oversight. I tend to call both 'reskinning' unless there are significant rules changes involved.

Sure, characters can change flavor-text/special effects without permission but I'd still like there to be consultation. Especially when it comes to character stuff, or anything else that starts to brush up against worldbuilding, I'll work with them to fit something in, but I want to know what's being added to my world. It's not about saying no, it's about finding a way to say yes that fits the world (or at least a part of it).
 

Zen is typically associated with speed and accuracy, not strength.
What? How is "Zen" any more associated with speed and accuracy over strength? As far as I can tell there is nothing in Zen teachings (not that I am an expert) that emphasize speed over strength. Zen:

"emphasizes rigorous self-restraint, meditation-practice, insight into the nature of mind, and nature of things, and the personal expression of this insight in daily life, especially for the benefit of others."

This seems equally applicable to strength as it is speed or accuracy. Heck, I watch a lot of anime and the strength based monk is a classic trope in the genre.
 


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