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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 5054121" data-attributes="member: 53980">The rogue rigs a stone slab to divert the acid while someone else lassos the object.The party is level 1 and can't cast Sending either, so instead they devise an ingenious method using a time released smoke-signal.  (Honestly, I think that's a pretty silly argument, as there will be periods in a level-based game where your options are limited simply due to level limits.)Still not seeing it.  If you're really going to tell me that the above scenarios can only be solved with your solution, then the problem isn't that the game is restricting your creativity but rather that your railroading DM is. There have always been limitations built into the game.  You may as well argue that creativity was stunted by any and all prior spells which didn't have an instant cast time and weren't Wish.  If Tordek falls off a cliff and you have to save him with Feather Fall rather than conjuring a celestial giant eagle to swoop in and catch him because Summon Monster has a full round casting time, is 3.x really quashing your creativity?  (IMO, no, it isn't.)Most (if not all) games limit player creativity by putting limits on what the players can do.  In order to avoid limiting creativity you'd need to give the players unlimited Wishes with unlimited power.  At that point the players can literally do anything they can think of, and therefore their creativity is no longer constrained.  However, I'd argue that at that point you really aren't playing D&D anymore (because in all editions of D&D creativity has been limited to the "tools" the PCs have at hand).It's like suggesting that 4e encourages more creativity because the Rogue has a utility power like Cloud Jump, which the rogue/thief would not have possessed in any of the earlier editions.  I assume, however, it's clear that the suggestion is nonsense?If game 1 has options A, B, C, D, and E, while game 2 has options C, D, E, F, and G, neither game is limiting creativity any more than the other.  Both limit it, just differently.  Both have an equal potential for creativity.If you don't have a hammer when you need one, you find a way to improvise.  Therein lies the very essence of creativity, IMO.</blockquote>

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