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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4520983" data-attributes="member: 177">I get what you're saying here, and you are correct, but whether it is a flaw is based in an assumption - that any and all concepts you can come up with should be equally valid choices in the game.I submit that it isn't so much a flaw as the nature of the RPG beast.  To be colorful:  Any system that tried to be infinitely flexible would end up like a wet noodle.  This is one of the major reasons why RPGs have a long tradition of house-ruling.  The published system cannot, as a practical matter, handle everything cool all the players everywhere can conceive, but typically the local GM can handle those things his small group throws at him for a single campaign.</blockquote>