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<blockquote data-quote="N0Man" data-source="post: 4886288" data-attributes="member: 64066">The original post referenced wizards that can do all of those things?&nbsp; Is that so?&nbsp;So, you would houserule it to allow for players, if the players wanted to choose a dragonmark for character and story reasons, if the restriction still existed.If you were willing to houserule it that way, then why aren't you willing to houserule it the other way when a player comes up to you and just wants min-max a character without any consideration of the story implications that are clearly laid out in the book?What you are effectively saying is that you're willing to houserule to encourage&nbsp; roleplaying but you aren't willing to houserule to discourage abusing a mechanic to min-max.The only thing that removing the restriction does is to assume that people are being reasonable and using the marks the marks for story reasons, instead of assuming they are going to be chosen to min-max a character.&nbsp; This allows for characters who really want to play a different character concept, for story and roleplaying reasons, to be stopped by a DM who says, &quot;sorry, the rules don't allow for this.&quot;Really, the only thing removing the limitation does is to turn the table so that a DM only needs to step in to limit the abuse of the mechanic, rather than having to step in to allow a player to roleplay something interesting.&nbsp; I think that's a step forward.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="N0Man, post: 4886288, member: 64066"] The original post referenced wizards that can do all of those things? Is that so? So, you would houserule it to allow for players, if the players wanted to choose a dragonmark for character and story reasons, if the restriction still existed. If you were willing to houserule it that way, then why aren't you willing to houserule it the other way when a player comes up to you and just wants min-max a character without any consideration of the story implications that are clearly laid out in the book? What you are effectively saying is that you're willing to houserule to encourage roleplaying but you aren't willing to houserule to discourage abusing a mechanic to min-max. The only thing that removing the restriction does is to assume that people are being reasonable and using the marks the marks for story reasons, instead of assuming they are going to be chosen to min-max a character. This allows for characters who really want to play a different character concept, for story and roleplaying reasons, to be stopped by a DM who says, "sorry, the rules don't allow for this." Really, the only thing removing the limitation does is to turn the table so that a DM only needs to step in to limit the abuse of the mechanic, rather than having to step in to allow a player to roleplay something interesting. I think that's a step forward. [/QUOTE]

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