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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 4588923" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!WOOT! I love this! Great stuff there.But ok, like Def mentioned though--even if 3E and 4E *DON'T* provide such evocative description and subsytem, is it really so difficult to make up your own?As to why 3E/4E doesn't provide such--I answered that as well in one of my posts in this series of threads, somewhere. Essentially--(1) Different writers. Not all writers are good writers; even good writers can have different strengths in what areas they imagine and write.(2) The wonderful Gary Gygax is some pretty large shoes to fill, in any regard.<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=":)" />(3) Don't WAIT for WOTC to *do it for you* If they have, in your view, done a poor job of handling these matters, then, like even with 1E, GARY GYGAX told us all--let your imagination wander, ponder these things, and CREATE YOUR OWN.Honestly, there's binders full of stuff I did back in the day for 1E--and I loved just about everything that Gary Gygax provided for us in the DMG--however, there was still, *intentionally*--lots of things left unsaid, undone, not detailed, not figured out. WE, THE DM HAD THE WONDROUS PLEASURE, JOY, AND RESPONSIBILITY of doing all of that!<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=":)" /> I, personally, am glad that Gygax explicitly told us we were not chained to merely what the rulebooks had written down, for virtually anything.Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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