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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IanB" data-source="post: 5549193" data-attributes="member: 1473">In the case of the other stuff, I generally won't make a decision that makes a PC weaker just for my own OCD need for verisimilitude. <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=":)" />Stuff that makes them vaguely stronger doesn't bother me unless it literally becomes game-breaking, and there's usually some social contract that can be reached with stuff like that if there's no way to fluff the it-doesn't-work-like-that appropriately.I'm not sure I actually have a tremendous problem with letting PCs decide for themselves who constitutes an enemy or an ally when it comes to, say, area effect powers - I'm not going to make a cleric kill innocent bystanders with an enemy-targeting power like fire storm, for example. Really I think that enemy/ally distinction only exists so you can differentiate between powers that target just one group and powers that target creatures in general, so I'm pretty ok with letting characters decide for themselves who constitutes members of each group at a given time under most circumstances.</blockquote>