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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 6867894" data-attributes="member: 6683613"><p>My bard does much the same thing with a deck of tarot cards.&nbsp; I'm hardly a stranger to player-initiated reskinning.&nbsp; The difference between reskinning spells as card magic and reskinning low Intelligence as high intelligence is that the card interpretation of the spell doesn't directly and immediately contradict the standard interpretation.&nbsp; A deck of cards can function just like a wand:&nbsp; it's a small physical object, its weight is negligible, you can hold and manipulate it in one hand, and so on.&nbsp; The substitution is natural and intuitive.&nbsp; You don't have to constantly grasp for reasons why you're not benefiting from having a deck instead of a wand, because there are genuinely very reasons why you would be.&nbsp; But when the rules say, &quot;You don't know this fact&quot; and the player says, &quot;Actually I do know this fact&quot;, that's a contradiction.&nbsp; And there are lots of reasons why knowing something is more beneficial than not knowing something, so you've constantly got to be patching your own narrative as the contradiction strains at verisimilitude.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 6867894, member: 6683613"] My bard does much the same thing with a deck of tarot cards. I'm hardly a stranger to player-initiated reskinning. The difference between reskinning spells as card magic and reskinning low Intelligence as high intelligence is that the card interpretation of the spell doesn't directly and immediately contradict the standard interpretation. A deck of cards can function just like a wand: it's a small physical object, its weight is negligible, you can hold and manipulate it in one hand, and so on. The substitution is natural and intuitive. You don't have to constantly grasp for reasons why you're not benefiting from having a deck instead of a wand, because there are genuinely very reasons why you would be. But when the rules say, "You don't know this fact" and the player says, "Actually I do know this fact", that's a contradiction. And there are lots of reasons why knowing something is more beneficial than not knowing something, so you've constantly got to be patching your own narrative as the contradiction strains at verisimilitude. [/QUOTE]

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