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<blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 5216440" data-attributes="member: 82504">The flavor text is optionalIt may have been true in the past (for some spells) but its now a tool for everybodyHow you do and visualize your powers even some very mundane seeming ones like a cleave attack are much more up to you.Want your halflings cleave to be an attack that is accidentally a flat of the blade hit knocking the enemies weapon arm in to there ally ... not a problem. Next time want that cleave attack to be a backswing that goes to far and smacks one enemy weakening the intended attack against the other enemy... no problem. Of course you can go the opposite route and if they are minions it might be the attack of Taarna the Tarakian beheading two in one stroke. It might be throwing a flying kick against one enemy and spinning around and slashing the other.I am really an extremist about it ;p and I like to describe many powers different each use.As a DM I like to use a dms best friend bonus to reward description which include the environment or things I described appropriately and the game has some definite uses defined for many environmental features&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;He is approaching divinity and if he cant make a cantrip do a little&nbsp; more at this point it would be a sad state of affairs... ;p honest its&nbsp; mage hand. Or for other effects.... say he traces a rune on a lock and say&nbsp; snaps his fingers its how the wizard always has done lock picking he is just much&nbsp; better than before.We even reflavor skill use at my house ;p not always necessary but sometimes its just the right stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Garthanos, post: 5216440, member: 82504"] [B]The flavor text is optional[/B] It may have been true in the past (for some spells) but its now a tool for everybody How you do and visualize your powers even some very mundane seeming ones like a cleave attack are much more up to you. Want your halflings cleave to be an attack that is accidentally a flat of the blade hit knocking the enemies weapon arm in to there ally ... not a problem. Next time want that cleave attack to be a backswing that goes to far and smacks one enemy weakening the intended attack against the other enemy... no problem. Of course you can go the opposite route and if they are minions it might be the attack of Taarna the Tarakian beheading two in one stroke. It might be throwing a flying kick against one enemy and spinning around and slashing the other. I am really an extremist about it ;p and I like to describe many powers different each use. As a DM I like to use a dms best friend bonus to reward description which include the environment or things I described appropriately and the game has some definite uses defined for many environmental features He is approaching divinity and if he cant make a cantrip do a little more at this point it would be a sad state of affairs... ;p honest its mage hand. Or for other effects.... say he traces a rune on a lock and say snaps his fingers its how the wizard always has done lock picking he is just much better than before. We even reflavor skill use at my house ;p not always necessary but sometimes its just the right stuff. [/QUOTE]

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