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<blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 8147862" data-attributes="member: 6563">Mixing all colors together and working with an unlimited pallet isn't the same thing, so your analogy is rather lacking both coherence and substance.Dactylic hexameter, iambic pentameter, sonnets, haiku, limmerick, blank verse, free verse, etc. are all forms and prosody of poetry—all equally valid as another. Some have rigid contraints (like rhyming patterns and meter), while others are less rigid, and some eschew contraints altogether (free verse). Having contraints doesn't make it better than not having constraints—limmericks have a proscribed meter and rhyming pattern, but I doubt you'll find many limmericks that are as venerated as, say, T.S. Elliot's &quot;The Hollow Men&quot; (which is free verse) or much of E.E. Cummings' work.Perhaps you enjoy Homeric dactylic hexameter, and that's your choice. To others, it is too limited, quaint, and/or woefully outdated. Both opinions are &quot;correct&quot; subjectively (to the person holding the opinion), but neither &quot;correct&quot; objectively. At the end of the day, with or without artifical constraints, poetry (and all art) is only as good as it expresses what the artist intended to convey and if it impacts its audience in a meaningful way.In this way, neither being hideboud to Tolkienian races, being open up to a Mos Eisley Cantina diversity, or anywhere on the spectrum in between is better or more nobel than another. Ultimately, what matters is if the gaming group enjoys the choice and everyone has fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Azzy, post: 8147862, member: 6563"] Mixing all colors together and working with an unlimited pallet isn't the same thing, so your analogy is rather lacking both coherence and substance. Dactylic hexameter, iambic pentameter, sonnets, haiku, limmerick, blank verse, free verse, etc. are all forms and prosody of poetry—all equally valid as another. Some have rigid contraints (like rhyming patterns and meter), while others are less rigid, and some eschew contraints altogether (free verse). Having contraints doesn't make it better than not having constraints—limmericks have a proscribed meter and rhyming pattern, but I doubt you'll find many limmericks that are as venerated as, say, T.S. Elliot's "The Hollow Men" (which is free verse) or much of E.E. Cummings' work. Perhaps you enjoy Homeric dactylic hexameter, and that's your choice. To others, it is too limited, quaint, and/or woefully outdated. Both opinions are "correct" subjectively (to the person holding the opinion), but neither "correct" objectively. At the end of the day, with or without artifical constraints, poetry (and all art) is only as good as it expresses what the artist intended to convey and if it impacts its audience in a meaningful way. In this way, neither being hideboud to Tolkienian races, being open up to a Mos Eisley Cantina diversity, or anywhere on the spectrum in between is better or more nobel than another. Ultimately, what matters is if the gaming group enjoys the choice and everyone has fun. [/QUOTE]

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