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<blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 5052842" data-attributes="member: 5724"><p>The creativity induced by the lack of a tool should not be confused with the creativity allowed by access to a tool. Even when one has access to a tool, one can be just as creative as those who lack it while having all the additional creativity of having it by simply <strong>choosing to not use the tool</strong>.</p><p></p><p>There is no creativity gained by not having a tool that is not also available to those who have the tool and choose not to use it. The guy with the 1 round waterbreathing can say "I need to save my spell for later, let's figure out some other way to save the poor sod." The guy without the 1 minute waterbreathing cannot and cannot use waterbreathing in any creative manner that involves a time frame of less than 10 minutes.</p><p></p><p>All the creativity possible in the 10 minute version of waterbreathing is a <strong>subset </strong>to all the creativity possible in the 1 round version of waterbreathing.</p><p></p><p>And I know I said I was done talking about it, but I wanted to respond to someone else who's in the biz because I didn't want to appear rude. <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=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgbrowning, post: 5052842, member: 5724"] The creativity induced by the lack of a tool should not be confused with the creativity allowed by access to a tool. Even when one has access to a tool, one can be just as creative as those who lack it while having all the additional creativity of having it by simply [B]choosing to not use the tool[/B]. There is no creativity gained by not having a tool that is not also available to those who have the tool and choose not to use it. The guy with the 1 round waterbreathing can say "I need to save my spell for later, let's figure out some other way to save the poor sod." The guy without the 1 minute waterbreathing cannot and cannot use waterbreathing in any creative manner that involves a time frame of less than 10 minutes. All the creativity possible in the 10 minute version of waterbreathing is a [B]subset [/B]to all the creativity possible in the 1 round version of waterbreathing. And I know I said I was done talking about it, but I wanted to respond to someone else who's in the biz because I didn't want to appear rude. :) [/QUOTE]
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